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Stuart Errol Ungar (September 8, 1953 – November 22, 1998) was an American professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, widely regarded to have been the greatest gin player of all time and one of the best Texas hold 'em players.
May 10, 2018 · Who is Stu Unger? Many consider Stu Ungar to be the greatest Texas Hold’Em and gin rummy player of all time. What Bobby Fischer was to chess, Ungar was to gin and poker. Known for a genius-level IQ and eidetic memory, Ungar’s story is as impressive as it is tragic.
Aug 31, 2023 · A player who, even though he passed away at 45, left a legacy in the world of poker games and became an icon of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). We're talking, of course, about Stu Ungar, and we will tell his story and explain why he was such a special player.
May 23, 2023 · In 1997, a full 16 years after his previous Main Event triumph, Stu Ungar’s personal redemption story saw him make an awe-inspiring return the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. In winning, ‘Stuey’ secured his place among the greatest poker players of all time before tragically losing his life just one year after his epic comeback.
Nov 24, 1998 · Stu Ungar, a professional poker player who won Binion's Horseshoe World Series of Poker three times and earned millions gambling, was found dead on Sunday in a motel on the Las Vegas Strip. He...
Nov 30, 2023 · The Tales of Billy Baxter: The Final Days of Stu Ungar. In the fifth and final entry in this series, Billy Baxter recalls Stu Ungar’s win at the 1997 World Series of Poker and everything that followed. Baxter also considers his own poker legacy and how much longer it can last, at the age of 83.
Stu Ungar was an American poker player widely considered to have been the greatest player in history. He won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on three occasions (1980,...
Jan 19, 2023 · Stu Ungar was one of the greatest poker players of all time. He was also a young gin rummy player of such precocious skill that he couldn’t find anyone to play against. But as many poker fans will know, Stu’s story is a sad one – a man of such enormous potential who couldn’t beat his demons.
Stu Ungar. BIRTHPLACE: MANHATTAN, NY. BRACELETS. 5. RINGS. 0. CASHES. 16. EARNINGS. $2,081,478. Player Bio. In 1977 Ungar was bet $100,000 by Bob Stupak that he could not count down the last two cards in a six deck shoe. Ungar won the bet. Ungar was also a professional Rummy player.
Jul 26, 2017 · Big deal: over the course of his short and thunderous life, Stu Ungar, the greatest poker player in history and one of only two people to win the World Series three times, made more than $30...
