Famous Poker Legends

Archive for October, 2008

Stuey “the Kid” Ungar rush into the Las Vegas poker scene in the end of the 70’s like a hurricane. His specialty was conventional poker strategy. After Ungar, poker hasn’t been the same. There are a few interesting facts in Ungar’s life before he became a famous poker player. He grew up in NY and from an early age he learnt the card games. Ungar’s talent was so devastating that by the time he was a teenager, he had problems finding opponents that will dare to play for money. Because of that, at the age of 24 Ungar moved to Las Vegas and right away he started to play the biggest poker games he could find.
Ungar won three times each the Super Bowl of Poker and the World Series of Poker. Unfortunately, the mastermind that created him also managed to destroy him. Ungar’s lifestyle was as flashy as his character at the table, his eccentricities amplified to devastating losses and astronomical wins. He was brilliant at the poker table but also troubled with personal problems that he created by himself. His destructive life ended tragically at the age of 45 in 1998.