Texas Holdem Poker Legends
Posted in Poker on 01/19/2013 10:21 pm by Skyla
Stu is thought to be by many to the very best NL Texas hold em Poker gambler ever.
The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and began wagering poker before becomming a teenager.
The young bettor started out betting gin and at the age of 10 had won his primary gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his mother and father. By the age of fourteen the little poker maestro had become a professional and stopped going to school.
In ‘54 Stu entered the record books by winning 10 grand in a gin tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York these days.
The fast speaking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting greats like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual skill for playing poker except in spite of his achievements in Hold’em poker, he favored betting gin.
Stu once said that there might a number of day be a much better NL Texas hold em player than him except he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a improved gin gambler.
In ‘80 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the greatest Texas hold em Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the very first time. Amazingly it was the very first time he had entered the tournament.
The following year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been luck, by successfully defending his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his third World poker championship.
But this poker legend also fought with drug abuse and a year after succeeding his third title Stu past away in his hotel room. According to medical doctors, he had died from cardiac arrest which was triggered by his lifestyle.
Stu Ungar had started out with nothing but his skill and natural talent for the casino game which made this poker good a millionaire many times over.