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Good point. We only hear about the one time it worked. Not about all the times he may have looked like a dope.

Re: Was Stu Ungar really a great poker player?
 

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Long story short he puts his opponent on 45 or 46 an calls his all in on the river with ten high. Don't know of any other player that can make that call.

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That's a great story, I love that story too.

But have you ever stopped to wonder how many times he called with ten high and lost?

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If you're playing with a marked deck--then none.

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They have a movie out about him, It's called Highroller (the stu ungar story). It will probably answer some of your questions. There are some insane stories about him. ie. playing a guy heads up freeze out for like....many thousand dollars, i'm drawing a blank. Long story short he puts his opponent on 45 or 46 an calls his all in on the river with ten high. Don't know of any other player that can make that call.

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Highroller will answer zero of these questions. It's purely entertainment and doesn't go into much detail at all regarding Stuey's poker career.

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he made the final table of the ME in 1990.

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how many wsop's did he participate in? anyone know?

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wow for a poker forum you guys are very well informed

Know your history or you are damned to repeat it

Re: Was Stu Ungar really a great poker player?
 

Barry G has talked about Stuey's amazing reads and how there are no 'amazing fold' stories. That's pretty interesting if you think about it. Also, Doyle has said he was incapable of winning if he ever got top pair cracked. (paraphrasing)

I've been something of a skeptic regarding him as well. Great players, though, can beat ring games and have excellent discipline .. I've never heard of him having those skills.

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It was against Mansour Matloubi.

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first of all, stu ungar took doyle heads up for the 81 wsop title im pretty sure. i believe that he was a genius; the way that he played gin rummy (took amarillo slim, AMARILLO SLIM, for alot of money) was unmatched, and hasnt been matched since. this guy had no respect for money, especially his own. when people backed him (baxter or whatever) he was unbeatable, but like in cash games when he played with his own money, he played dumb because he loved the gamble too much. he was where we all strive to be in terms of poker and card game skills.

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Kirill Gerasimov called his heads up opponent's all in bet with ten high, and the board was something like AKJJx, and it was heads up in the first round of a no limit hold'em shootout, AND it was AFTER HIS CARDS WERE ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED. That's a much, much tougher call than Ungar's, who based on the flop and turn betting was able to put the guy on a specific hand, busted gutshot draw. Kirill exposed his cards prematurely and CALLED when his opponent went all in. This is quite possibly the best call EVER, especially because it meant advancing to the next round of the shootout versus going bust out of the money.

Sure, it looks suspicious that the guy went all in, if you had quad jacks what else could you do, is he any more likely to call even a small bet with that hand?

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The man is on record to have won ten of the thirty major tournaments he entered over his lifetime.

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how can u even try to [censored] with this??????


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The man is on record to have won ten of the thirty major tournaments he entered over his lifetime.

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That would be "on record" as in "totally unverifiable claim that is wildly more likely to be false than true, but has been repeated so many times that it has become gospel in the minds of many."

Or, conversely, you have someone in mind who knows for certain exactly which tournaments he entered and didn't cash.

People are such suckers.

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wait i think that is why they are called major tournaments.
Pretty sure they can be easily tracked.

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Long story short he puts his opponent on 45 or 46 an calls his all in on the river with ten high. Don't know of any other player that can make that call.

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That's a great story, I love that story too.

But have you ever stopped to wonder how many times he called with ten high and lost?

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How many times do you need to call and be right for it to be profitable?

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NO AND THEN!!!!!