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Stu is considered by most to the greatest No Limit Texas hold em Poker player ever.

The three time World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and started betting poker prior to reaching his teens.

The young gambler began playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his 1st gin tournament, while on vacation with his parents. By the age of fourteen the small poker maestro had become a professional and stopped going to school.

In ‘54 Stu entered the record books by winning ten thousand dollars in a gin rummy tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still appears in New York today.

The quick speaking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting superstars like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant. Stu Ungar had a real skill for playing poker except in spite of his achievements in Hold em poker, he favored wagering gin.

Stu once said that there might several day be a better NL Hold’em player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a much better gin player.

In ‘80 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the ideal Hold em Poker gamblers in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the first time. Astonishingly it was the 1st time he had played in the tournament.

The subsequent year he dismissed any suggestions that it had been luck, by successfully defending his title. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by succeeding his 3rd World poker championship.

But this poker master also fought with drug abuse and a year after winning his third title Stu Ungar past away in his hotel room. According to doctors, he had died from cardiac arrest which was brought on by his lifestyle.

Stu had started with practically nothing except his skill and natural talent for the game which made this poker excellent a millionaire several times over.

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