A prodigy who undoubtedly deserves to be remembered for the story thanks to his impressive talent to dominate the decks, a cold-blooded anarchist who lived his life in a frenzy of emotions. Also called the Jim Morrison of poker, Stu Ungar an American who became a legend throughout the world for his story with the poker!
With just 15 years old and surrounded by financial problems in his family, he began to earn his daily bread by playing gin rummy. Quickly his name was made known in all the neighborhoods of his native New York thanks to the magic he had when playing, even the mafias began to have him as a big shot. He left the institute when he began to accumulate large amounts of money, which he administered pessimously.
He had the need to move to Las Vegas, where he began to build the living legend of the poker, quickly learned to play No limit Holden, game which dominated as anyone and even came to be crowned 3 times, the world series of Poker. No doubt it was a terror for his opponents.
He went to betting tables, built fortunes in one night and lost them in the following hours betting on games that he was just beginning to practice like golf, bets on the hippodrome, his life was a roller coaster of experiences and cocaine. Sadly, he died at age 45, alone in a motel room because of an overdose.
A player par excellence not only at the poker tables, he was a player addicted to adrenaline in every aspect of his life, his whole life was a great bet that ultimately lost. That road full of drugs and drinks was what spoiled his essence and led him to the abyss, he even had to wear glasses to hide the scars left by the abuse of cocaine on his partition, the other players made bets on his appearances, totally avoiding Help him get out of his problems.
I said that he was a cold-blooded character, at the table he treated all the others as enemies of all his life, he suggested himself to hate everyone equally and went with all the determination to destroy them, even threats of death seemed the words that he recited his rivals. He really did, all his plays were masterpieces because he was literally a God at the time of counting cards and making extra bets, predicting the plays of his rivals. Although it seemed that we were talking about an animal, Stu was a predator by nature, unable to feel fear or feel terrified of making bets was always finding the weaknesses of their rivals.
Do you know what it would cost to have a person a record of 10 big wins? Stu did not depend on luck or chance, he proved it by winning 10 tournaments out of a total of 30, he did what the rest would cost us at least 100 attempts.
Although perhaps that lack of fear caused his early death, I can say that he was a genius and we must remember him for his successes and try to forget a bit his imperfections, to the account we are not all prodigies of poker.
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