Texas Hold’em Poker Masters
Posted in Poker on 07/14/2010 04:22 pm by Lilly
Stu Ungar is regarded by most to the finest No Limit Hold’em Poker player ever.
The three time World Poker Champ was born in New York in ‘53 and started playing poker prior to reaching his teens.
The young gambler began betting gin and at the age of ten had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of fourteen the little poker genius had become a pro and stopped going to school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the history books by winning $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without sacrificing a single hand, a record which still remains in New York these days.
The fast speaking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to sporting superstars such as Joe Namath and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a actual talent for betting poker except regardless of his successes in Hold em poker, he preferred betting gin.
Stu once said that there may several day be a far better NL Holdem player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a better gin player.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map as one of the ideal Texas hold’em Poker players in the entire world when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the very first time. Astonishingly it was the first time he had played in the tournament.
The right after year he put aside any thoughts that it had been luck, by successfully defending his crown. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his 3rd World poker championship.
Except this poker master also battled with drug abuse and a year right after winning his third title Stu Ungar past away in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had passed away from cardiac arrest which was caused by his lifestyle.
Stu had started out with nothing but his ability and talent for the casino game which made this poker fantastic a millionaire a lot of times over.