Poker Legends - Stu Ungar

In the later part of the 70's, Stuey the Kid Ungar came on the Vegas seen like a bat out of hell. Never a poker player of traditional strategies, he bent all the conventional ideologies of poker playing. Poker has never been the same since this envelope-pusher arrived on the scene.

Originally from New York City, he put the Gin Rummy community on edge. By the time he was a teenager, he couldn't even find anyone willing to play him for fear of losing serous cash. So at age 24 he moved out to Las Vegas and jumped straight into some of the most high-profile poker games around.

He won the World Series of Poker and the Super Bowl of Poker three times each.

Unfortunately, it is the same bat out of hell mentality that eventually ended him. After a few major losses, he let his personal problems get the best of him. He tragically died in 1998 at the age of 45.