Stu Ungar
The main reason for why Stu Ungar switched from gin rummy to poker was that he was a tiny bit too skilled at it. So skilled was he, that no one could equal him. Even the apparently professionals who were meant to be the greatest at gin were decimated when they faced Stu. One of these gin player was Harry Stein, called, "Yonkie". Mr. Stein suffered such a belittling blow at the hands of Stu Ungar that he allegedly stopped playing it professionally and never resurfaced at a gin tournament.
Accordingly, with a distinction like that it was not very long before everyone became afraid of competing against Stu Ungar. He couldn’t find any matches and in his agony he began doing something no one had done prior. Stu presented beginning handicaps to likely adversaries with the hope that they might just play with him if they thought they had an advantage. He at will started from a negative arrangement and one tale has it that stu even played with a regular absconder. Amid the game, he received a few words of wisdom that the cheater was at it yet again but mr. ungar stated that he deduced of the dishonestly and he would still win, which of course, he did.
The same trend followed Stu Ungar to vegas. He won so often that the casinos began requesting that he not to bet in their poker rooms anymore. The reason was that other casino customers would not be seated at the poker table if Stu was playing.
Stu Ungar is recalled more for his accomplishments in texas holdem poker but he always insisted that he was considerably better at gin rummy.
He defeated Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker in 1980 and became the youngest world champion. Due to his features that made him seem far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".
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