Interesting Stu Ungar article

GreywolfNYC · #1 04-13-2005, 03:12 PM

Indiana · #2 04-13-2005, 04:20 PM

sad, so sad....guy was a genious...Too bad he never had any "real" friends to help him stay away from drugs...Just shows how crappy us humans can be to one another...

Indiana

imported_CaseClosed326 · #3 04-13-2005, 04:42 PM

“Doyle Brunson had laid 100-to-1 odds against my winning that Series, and I beat him heads-up to take the title,” Ungar said. “So that was doubly satisfying.”

Stu Ungar played heads up with Doyle in the WSOP? Anyone have any video I can download of this? That would be sweet.

IronDragon1 · #4 04-13-2005, 05:18 PM

*GLARING INCONSITENCY ALERT*

That article said
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In 1997, Stu Ungar became the first person to win three World Series of Poker championships.

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Didn't Johnny Moss win his third title in 1974?

Dynasty · #5 04-13-2005, 05:36 PM

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*GLARING INCONSITENCY ALERT*

That article said
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In 1997, Stu Ungar became the first person to win three World Series of Poker championships.

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Didn't Johnny Moss win his third title in 1974?

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Moss was awarded his first championship. They didn't bother to play the game in the first year. So, if you wanted to, you could say Moss didn't "win" the first WSOP.

d1sterbd · #6 04-13-2005, 05:36 PM

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“Doyle Brunson had laid 100-to-1 odds against my winning that Series, and I beat him heads-up to take the title,” Ungar said. “So that was doubly satisfying.”

Stu Ungar played heads up with Doyle in the WSOP? Anyone have any video I can download of this? That would be sweet.

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Doyle flopped two pair, aces and sevens, and Stu hit an inside straight on the turn or the river to win the tournament.

Dan Burns · #7 04-14-2005, 01:47 AM

I met the author of the book this article is from in the airport on the way back from the PPMillion. He struck up a conversation w me and let me read the book on the plane ride back to Newark. Seems like a good read. As interesting as the Ungar section is, the Men the Master section seemed like it is the best out of the 5-6 profiles I perused. Anyone know if they're going to run the entire series in Cardplayer?

jimrummy54 · #8 04-14-2005, 01:59 AM

This is the best article on Stuey I have read. It doesn't know or understand everything about his life, but it interprets everything it knows about correctly(almost everything). That's saying a lot. It doesn't feel the need to speculate or embellish. These writers should be proud.

I first spoke last month of the old man in NY that Stuey learn his advanced gin theory from. I didn't realize that Stuey had told Chip Reese all about this man and his theories. This man took Stuey to a level in gin that only the two of them have reach. Even a man like Chip Reese, knowing what he knows about this and having all his great card skills can't quite put the whole thing together.

FishBurger · #9 04-14-2005, 04:53 AM

I think this line from the article nails the reason that HE is so popular now and probably will be for a long time:

"Poker, with its reasonable degree of luck and abundance of weak players who view themselves as losing to the table rather than to an individual, was perfect."

whiskeytown · #10 04-14-2005, 05:05 AM

from what I understand, he had plenty of "real" friends who did what they could to help clean him up. I think I read where Mike Sexton offered to back him on something if he'd just go to rehab. (that's fuzzy, but that's an example of a friend who tried to do something) -

No one can help an addict who doesn't want to help himself, not even a daughter or loving wife, and certainly not poker buddies.

RB