The primary basis for why Mr. Ungar switched from gin rummy to poker was that Stu was a bit too skilled at it. So good in fact, that no player possibly could stand up to him. Even the apparently experts who were meant to be the greatest at gin were demolished when they faced Stu Ungar. One of these gin rummy masters was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Mr. Stein was handed such a debilitating blow at the hands of mr. ungar that he allegedly quit competing in it professionally and never showed up at a gin tournament.
Certainly, with a image like that it was not too long before players became afraid of betting against stu. He could not find any games and in his desperation he started doing something no one had done prior. He began offering starting handicaps to likely opponents in the high hopes that they may play opposed to him if they thought they held an edge. He at will began from a negative arrangement and one account has it that stu even played with a consistent cheater. Amid the contest, he received advice that the cheater was at it one more time but Stu Ungar stated that he was aware of the dishonestly and he would still win, which of course, he did.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar to Las Vegas. He won so often that the casinos began asking him not to gamble in their rooms anymore. The basis for it was that other casino players refused to be seated at the poker table if he were seated.
Stu Ungar is recollected more for his accomplishments in hold’em poker but he himself always insisted that he was considerably more accomplished at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the WSOP in 1980 to become the youngest world champion. Because of his looks that made him seem far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".
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