POKER INFO - PROILE - Stu Ungar
 

whens the damn Stu movie comin out, it's taking forever! Stu the man

yes just because someone has no respect for money doesnt mean that he doesnt deserve respect. Stu i hope god doesnt kick ya out for taking all his money but i dont think the devil would have ya. RIP

The best poker player ever hands down--3 for 3 -enough said-- a legend --Please don't compare Hellmuth, Cloutier, Slim, or Brunson to this man.

A drug addict who got lucky a few times

ungar was the the best...no won ever one as many tournaments and live cash than this guy did... RIP

He is very sexy and cute. Looking at him make me want to cuddle with him all night. I get loopy in my stomache just looking at his picture.

what a waste of poker talent,if i had his skills id never touch drugs and only bet on things i could beat.a sad story.

he could have had it all... the man would win a million in poker then drop the lot on golf games or craps... repeated this cycle a number of times in his life... but thats what made him such a great NL poker player, he simply didn't care about the money...

He got banned from a casino for counting down the last 14 cards in a one deck shoe to a pit boss after being accused of cheating cause he was up so much. Then he got dared for $100,000 to his $10,000 to count down the last 3 decks of a 6 deck shoe. He did it with ease. What a remarkable brain.

imagine how many more tournaments this guy couldve won. whoever said hes a drug addict and lucky, didnt see the man play poker at all in his life. stuey is the best ever at winning and losing.

Stew Ungar was in a league of his own. No one can be compared to him, and he hands down the best player to ever have played the game. I don't think that anyone in my lifetime will be even close to being as good as ungar. And the remarkable part is that NLH wasn't even his best game. Just think what he could have done if he didn't get into all of those drugs. RIP Stu, you're the man.

Don't knock the man because he did drugs. He had his personal demons stemming from a crappy childhood. His parents were bad and they died young. What can you expect from the man? Luck can win you one WSOP but it can't win you 3. Stu was one of the greatest minds to ever touch felt. He deserves nothing but respect.

cute? are you kidding me? did you see him in '96? you want a good looking poker player? it's Phil Ivey... but if you want a legend... Stu's your guy

He was the best. What made him great was his ability to play as if he wasn't trying. But his mind was always alert to waht was going on around him. The drugs took some of that away and eventually it did him in. If wall street had ever found him in the early 80's he would be an "Allan Greenspan" type with a clue to the markets.

What a marvelous poker pro. Im sory to see him go. With 3 wsop main event titles, it maKES HIM A LEGEND

Stu is immortal, a genius possessing skills that can only be acquired from God. Like Mozart or Einstein, his skills defied the bounds of human nature. The fact that so many dim wits slam him for his lifestyle prove the fact of his genius. No one can criticize his game, only his personal troubles which actually make his achievements that much more remarkable. People love to hate the best, because they know that they can never reach that level.Stu was and is the greatest!

i turned on the tv one day to watch stu dominate the last world series he won. I thought the game was rigged or he had x-ray glasses. All the pros today are Lucky hes dead, he was the best and made a joke out of the rest.

Stuey's legend lives in the movie "High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story" (formerly called "Stuey"), picked up by New Line and set to release next April (or maybe sooner). Michael Imperioli (Christopher of the "Sopranos" plays Stuey, written, produced and directed by Tony Vidmer. Details at official web site [url]http://highrollermovie.com[/url] and Yahoo! group site [url]http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stueymovie[/url] It's awesome! I saw it at the Nashville Film Festival.

the Bobby Fisher of poker

could have been the mj of poker if he had common sense and stayed off drugs. ONE of the greats. Top 10 but nothing like best ever

how do i get a copy of his biography? can't find it anywhere

My mother and I, along with a few others are putting together a book about my dad's life as we speak. Hopefully it with be released by the next WSOP. His life was amazing. Even I was surpried to hear about all the things he went through while he was making a name for himself. For those of you who think he was nothing but a coke head I'll fill you in on a few things... my dad never smoked ciggaretts, drank, smoked pot or anythings of that nature his whole life. He was the stratest guy you ever met. It wasn't until he came to Vegas and he was be playing in tournaments that lasted 3 or 4 days in a row that's actually how drugs got introduced to him. Luckly tournament arn't like that now of days.

Nice to see you here! You are VERY good looking. Too bad about your Dad, but there's always that picture in his pocket, right? Peace.

One of the greatest ever, no doubt about that, i could see him winning so many wsop braclets and from what i heard hes a truly a gentleman, everyone including me has their own demons, but that doesnt change who you are.. rip stuey

Stef: Great to see your posting regarding Stu's life, please keep us posted as to when the book is coming out on the greatest poker player that ever lived there are thousands of us poker players out there which are waiting for that book, RIP STU!

Hello i am a young poker player and i was wondering if there are sites to get tips from stew or videos of his tourneys. -email me or post please

He was truly one of the best players in history if not the best of all time he just played it like he invented the game otherwise the game would have invented him!

the Micheal Jordan of poker

Three World Series Of Poker Main Event titles, three Super Bowl Of Poker Main Event titles, and countless other wins...Over 31 MILLION in earnings in such a limited number of events...How can anyone dispute who's the greatest No-Limit Hold-'Em player of all time...STU UNGAR BY FAR...SECOND TO NONE.

The Guy Was So Good I Think He Cheated lol j/k wish he was around still so ppl like varkonyi and raymer couldnt win they really suck

anytime a real professional (not some jackass on a message board) is asked who the greatest of all time is they always say stu ungar. the funny thing is that hold'em was not his best game. this guy was winning $10,000 hands of gin when he was a teenager. it seems to me he would have been the best at what ever he decided to do.

Phil Hellmuth is 10x better that Stu Ungar. 9 braclets to 3

Take the collective poker talent of everyone to have made a post in this site, put it in one player, and Stu Ungar would beat that person in ten minutes headsup. I would also like to thank his daughter and family for compiling a book about his life. Being a twentysomething player I am truly thankful that tournament structures have changed, It is incredible to think of his accomplishments given the way those tournaments rode players like abused workhorses. Perhaps the greatest loss of our time not to be able to watch him play, but it is nothing to your loss, Ms. Ungar. To hell with those who would disrespect him over drugs, they weren't there. They don't know the pressure he felt, more than likely they'll never know it. But they will dream every time they sit at a card table that they had a tenth of the genius your father possessed. I anxiously await the release of your book as well as the film next year. I hope it shows people who think poker is an easy living exactly how many obstacles we indeed face. God bless and thank you again.

Hello to all readers here. If Stu were still alive there would not be any doubt about why he is the greatest gin/poker player ever. The reason that the game has become so popular is due to legends like Stu Ungar. To Stefanie and Ms Ungar, his spirit lives on in his name and memory. I am related to Jerry Ungar, Stu's cousin, and am now teaching Danny Ungar to play the best game ever. We all go by the name the Ungar gang and will be ready for wsop 2005 or 06, he is only 19. We will never play like Stu did but hope to keep the Ungar name in poker for many more years to come... so watch out... there are other Ungar's still out here and getting ready.

He lost more than he won-died broke- he's no better th an the rest of the losers out there-actaully he is was one up-he was also a junkie- amazing how so many people praise a degerate gambling junkie who died broke- he was a poor excuse for a human- A dime a dozen- jsut another dead junkie in my mind

in repsonse to owen- the best at whatever he would try???- How about life. REAL WINNER THERe- one of millions of dead junkies- REAL HERO- your right he really conquered life

and stepahnie ungar should be ashamed of herself by making money off her own father's tragedies- but hey -apple dont fall far from the tree - your father was a degenerate drug addict - JUST ANOTHER LOSER - he got what he deserves

In response to pk... I am sorry you feel such ill feelings towards my father. I almost wasn't going to respond to your comment because I didn't want to lower myself but I can't read this and not stick up for my dad especially since he isn't here to stick up for himself. I am by no means using his life to make money. His life was incredible and it deserves to be told. When your the best in the world at anything you deserved reconigation. I am especially looking forward to this book coming out so people like you can see that there was alot more to my dad life then just his drug use.

For those of you who are intrested in the movie comming out, I don't have any infomation on that because we were not behind that movie. I read the script and didn't care for it. I wanted it to be totally based on my fathers life(the good and the bad) but the guy behind the movie felt it was fine the way he wrote it so we declined.

so is the movie still guna come out? cuz i never got to see stu play because of my young age, i really want to see the movie about the poker legend stu ungar..RIP