Texas Holdem Poker Legends
By Stanley Majors, Sat Dec 10th
Stu Ungar is considered by most to the greatest No Limit TexasHoldem Poker player ever.
The three times World Poker Champion was born in New York in1953 and began playing poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of 10had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on holiday withhis parents. By the age of 14 the little poker maestro hadturned professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the record books by winning $10,000 ina gin rummy tournament without losing a single hand, a recordwhich still stands in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, tosporting greats such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. StuUngar had a real talent for playing poker but despite hissuccesses in Texas Holdem poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might some day be a better No LimitTexas Holdem player than him but he could not see how anyonecould ever be a better gin player.
In 1980
