The primary reason why Stu switched from gin to poker was that he was a little too good at it. So good was he, that no one possibly could stand up to him. Even the commonly called champions who were meant to be the best at gin were decimated when they faced Stu. One of these gin player was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Harry Stein suffered such a crushing beating at the hands of mr. ungar that he apparently quit playing it professionally and never resurfaced at a gin tournament.
Of course, with a image like that it was not too long before people became afraid of playing against Stu Ungar. He could find no matches and in his boredom he began doing something no one had attempted prior. He began offering beginning handicaps to likely opposing players with the high hopes that they might just play opposed to him if they thought they had an edge. He deliberately played from a negative arrangement and one story has it that stu even played with a consistent cheater. Amid the match, he received advice that the bad egg was at it yet again but mr. ungar guaranteed that he knew of the cheating and he would still actually win, which he did, of course.
The same trend followed Stu Ungar to vegas. He won so frequently that the casinos began requesting that he not to wager on their rooms anymore. The reason for it was that other poker room customers refused to sit at the poker table if he were seated.
Stu Ungar is recalled better for his abilities in hold’em poker but he always said that he was a whole lot better at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker in Nineteen Eighty to become the youngest world champion. Because of his looks that made him appear far younger than he actually was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".
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