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Stu Ungar is regarded by most to the very best No Limit Hold’em Poker player ever.

The 3 time World Poker Champ was born in New York in ‘53 and began playing poker prior to becomming a teenager.

The young gambler started out wagering gin and at the age of 10 had won his initial gin tournament, while on holiday with his mother and father. By the time he turned fourteen the small poker genius had become a professional and dropped out of school.

In ‘54 Stu Ungar entered the record books by succeeding $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York these days.

The fast speaking superstar has been compared, in poker terms, to athletic superstars such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a true skill for playing poker but in spite of his successes in Texas hold em poker, he favored playing gin.

Stu once said that there might some day be a greater NL Texas hold’em player than him but he couldn’t see how anyone could ever be a greater gin player.

In 1980 Stu was put on the world map as one of the ideal Hold’em Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champ for the first time. Amazingly it was the very first time he had entered the tournament.

The subsequent year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been a fluke, by successfully protecting his title. And in ‘97 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.

Except this poker master also fought with substance abuse and a year after succeeding his third title Stu Ungar died in his hotel room. According to doctors, he had passed away from a heart attack which was caused by his lifestyle.

Stu had started out with nothing except his ability and expertise for the game which made this poker good a millionaire several times over.