Stu Ungar is considered by most to the finest NL Texas hold’em Poker gambler ever.

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

The young gambler started out betting gin and at the age of ten had won his very first gin tournament, while on vacation with his parents. By the age of 14 the little poker genius had become a professional and stopped going to school.

In ‘54 Stu entered the record books by winning 10 grand in a gin tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still remains in New York today.

The quick speaking wiz kid has been likened, in poker terms, to athletic greats like Joe Namath and Kobe Bryant. Stu had a actual talent for playing poker but despite his achievements in Texas hold’em poker, he preferred playing gin.

Stu once said that there might a number of day be a improved NL Hold em gambler than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a better gin gambler.

In ‘80 Stu was put on the global map as one of the finest Texas hold em Poker gamblers in the planet when he was crowned World Poker Champion for the first time. Amazingly it was the first time he had played in the tournament.

The right after year he dismissed any thoughts that it had been luck, by effectively defending his title. And in 1997 Stu set the record by winning his third World poker championship.

Except this poker master also fought with drug abuse and a year following succeeding his third title Stu died in his hotel room. According to physicians, he had died from a cardiac event which was brought on by his lifestyle.

Stu had began with practically nothing but his ability and expertise for the casino game which made this poker great a millionaire quite a few times over.