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Stu Unger: Poker Player
The main reason for why Stu Ungar changed from gin rummy to poker was that he was a little 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 greatest at gin rummy were blow away when they faced Mr. Ungar. One such gin player was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Harry was handed such a debilitating blow at the hands of mr. ungar that he allegedly quit playing it as a pro and never resurfaced at a gin rummy tournament.
Accordingly, with a image like that it was not very long before gamblers became shy of betting against stu. He could not find any games and in his desperation he started doing something no one had attempted prior. Stu began offering beginning handicaps to potential adversaries in the wish that they may compete with him if they thought they had an edge. He deliberately began from a disadvantageous position and one account has it that he even played with a constant absconder. Mid contest, he received advice that the bad egg was at it yet again but mr. ungar guaranteed that he knew of the dishonestly and he would still come away with a win, which he did, of course.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar into Las Vegas. He won so frequently that the poker rooms began asking him not to gamble on their rooms anymore. The reasoning behind it was that other casino players would not be seated at the table if he were playing.
Stu Ungar is remembered better for his achievements in hold’em poker but he always maintained that he was much more skilled at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the WSOP in Nineteen Eighty and became the youngest world camp. Due to his features that made him seem far younger than he actually was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".
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