Poker Player: Stu Unger
Saturday, 20. February 2010
The basic reason why Mr. Ungar switched from gin to poker was that he was a bit too good at it. So skilled in fact, that no player could stand up to him. Even the commonly called experts who were supposed to be the best at gin were devoured when they faced Stu Ungar. One of these gin masters was Harry Stein, called, "Yonkie". Harry Stein suffered such a crushing beating at the hands of mr. ungar that he allegedly stopped playing it professionally and never showed up at a gin rummy tournament.
Certainly, with a image like that it wasn’t very long before everyone became afraid of playing against stu. He couldn’t find any matches and in his boredom he started doing something no one had attempted prior. He provided beginning handicaps to potential competitors with the high hopes that they might just play against him if they thought they had an edge. He at will began from a bad position and one story has it that he even competed with a constant bad egg. Mid contest, he received a few words of wisdom that the bad egg was at it once again but stu guaranteed that he deduced of the chicanery and he would still actually win, which he did, of course.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar to vegas. He won so frequently that the casinos started requesting that he not to bet in their rooms anymore. The reason for it was that other casino players refused to be seated at the poker table if Stu was seated.
Stu Ungar is remembered better for his abilities in hold’em poker but he always insisted that he was much more accomplished at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker in 1980 to become the youngest world camp. Because of his features that made him seem far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".
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