Stu Ungar
Posted in Poker on 01/16/2011 04:21 pm by Skyla
The primary reason why Stu changed from gin to poker was that Stu was a little too good at it. So good was he, that no player was able equal him. Even the commonly called experts who were supposed to be the most favorable at gin were decimated when they competed against Stu. One of these gin rummy masters was Harry Stein, called, "Yonkie". Harry suffered such a humiliating defeat at the hands of Stu Ungar that he evidently quit competing in it professionally and never showed up at a gin tournament.
Of course, with a distinction like that it wasn’t long before players became shy of betting against stu. He couldn’t find any matches and in his bleakness he started doing something no one had attempted prior. He provided beginning handicaps to potential competitors in the wish that they might play with him if they thought they had an edge. He at will started from a bad position and one tale has it that stu even competed against a regular cheater. During the game, he get warnings that the bad egg was at it again but stu assured that he deduced of the chicanery and he would still actually win, which of course, he did.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar into vegas. He won so much that the casinos started asking him not to compete on their respective premises anymore. The reasoning behind it was that other poker room clientele refused to be seated at the poker table if he were seated.
Stu Ungar is recollected better for his accomplishments in texas hold’em poker but he always maintained that he was a whole lot more skilled at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker in 1980 and became the youngest world champion. Because of his looks that made him appear far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".