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The primary reason why Stu switched from gin to poker was that he was a little too good at it. So good was he, that no player could stand up to him. Even the apparently professionals who were meant to be the best at gin rummy were crushed when they faced Stu. One such gin rummy player was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Harry suffered such a humiliating defeat at the hands of stu that he evidently stopped participating in it as a pro and never resurfaced at a gin rummy tournament.
Accordingly, with a image like that it was not very long before gamblers became weary of playing against stu. He couldn’t find any matches and in his agony he started doing something no one had attempted before. Stu offered beginning handicaps to likely adversaries in the hope that they might just play against him if they thought they had an advantage. He at will started from a negative position and one account has it that he even competed against a constant absconder. During the contest, he received a few words of wisdom that the cheater was at it yet again but mr. ungar assured that he knew of the dishonestly and he would still come away with a win, which of course, he did.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar into vegas. He won so often that the poker rooms began asking him not to bet in their respective premises anymore. The explanation why was that other casino players would not be seated at the table if he were seated.
Stu Ungar is recalled better for his accomplishments in holdem poker but he himself always insisted that he was much more skilled at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the WSOP in Nineteen Eighty and became the youngest world champion. Due to his looks that made him seem far younger than he was, he got the nickname, "The Kid".
