Texas hold'em Poker LegendsStu Ungar is considered by most to the greatest No Limit Texas
hold'em Poker player ever.
The three times World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and began playing poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the
age of 14 the little poker maestro had turned professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the record books by winning $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still stands
in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a real
talent for playing poker but despite his successes in Texas hold'em poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might some day be a better No Limit Texas hold'em 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 best Texas hold'em Poker players in the world when he was crowned World Poker Champion
for the first time. Extraordinarily it was the first time he had entered the tournament.
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