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The main basis for why Mr. Ungar switched from gin to poker was that Stu was a bit too good at it. So good was he, that no player could equal him. Even the commonly called professionals who were supposed to be the most favorable at gin were devoured when they faced Stu. One such gin player was Harry Stein, called, "Yonkie". Mr. Stein suffered such a debilitating beating at the hands of stu that he evidently stopped competing in it professionally and never resurfaced at a gin tournament.

Accordingly, with a distinction like that it was not very long before people became weary of competing against Stu Ungar. He could find no games and in his agony he began doing something no one had attempted before. Stu presented beginning handicaps to likely opposing players in the hope that they might compete against him if they believed they had an edge. He at will started from a disadvantageous position and one story has it that stu even competed with a regular bad egg. Amid the game, he received a few words of wisdom that the bad egg was at it yet again but Stu Ungar guaranteed that he knew of the cheating and he would still actually win, which of course, he did.

The same trend followed Stu Ungar into vegas. He won so frequently that the poker rooms started asking him not to gamble on their poker rooms anymore. The reasoning behind it was that other poker room clientele refused to sit at the table if Stu was playing.

Stu Ungar is recollected more for his accomplishments in texas hold’em poker but he himself always insisted that he was considerably more skilled at gin rummy.

He beat Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker in Nineteen Eighty and became the youngest world camp. Because of his features that made him seem far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".