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The primary reason for why Stu Ungar switched from gin to poker was that Stu was a bit too skilled at it. So skilled in fact, that no one possibly could equal him. Even the apparently champions who were meant to be the best at gin rummy were crushed when they faced Mr. Ungar. One such gin rummy professionals was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Mr. Stein was handed such a humiliating blow at the hands of Stu Ungar that he apparently stopped playing it professionally and never showed up at a gin tournament.

Accordingly, with a distinction like that it was not very long before players became weary of wagering against mr. ungar. He couldn’t find any matches and in his agony he began doing something no one had performed prior. Stu presented starting handicaps to likely opponents with the hope that they might compete against him if they thought they had an advantage. He at will played from a bad position and one account has it that stu even competed with a regular cheater. During the match, he get advice that the absconder was at it once again but Stu Ungar guaranteed that he knew of the chicanery and he would still actually win, which of course, he did.

The same problem followed Stu Ungar into vegas. He won so much that the casinos began requesting that he not to gamble on their poker rooms anymore. The basis for it was that other poker room visitors refused to be seated at the poker table if Stu was playing.

Stu Ungar is remembered better for his accomplishments in texas hold’em poker but he always said that he was far better at gin rummy.

He beat Doyle Brunson in the WSOP in Nineteen Eighty to become the youngest world camp. Because of his looks that made him seem far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".