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The primary basis for why Stu Ungar changed from gin to poker was that he was a little too good at it. So good in fact, that no player possibly could stand up to him. Even the so-called experts who were supposed to be the greatest at gin rummy were blow away when they competed against Stu Ungar. One such gin rummy player was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Mr. Stein was handed such a belittling blow at the hands of mr. ungar that he apparently quit playing it as a pro and never showed up at a gin rummy tournament.
Accordingly, with a notoriety like that it wasn’t long before gamblers became weary of playing against Stu Ungar. He could find no games and in his desperation he began doing something no one had performed before. He offered starting handicaps to potential competitors with the wish that they might just compete with him if they believed they held an edge. He deliberately began from a disadvantageous arrangement and one story has it that he even played with a constant bad egg. Amid the contest, he get warnings that the cheater was at it once again but mr. ungar stated that he knew of the chicanery and he would still acquire a win, which of course, he did.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar to sin city. He won so much that the casinos began requesting that he not to bet in their casinos anymore. The explanation why was that other poker room visitors refused to sit at the table if he were seated.
Stu Ungar is remembered more for his accomplishments in texas holdem poker but he always insisted that he was far more accomplished at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the World Series of Poker in Nineteen Eighty and became the youngest world camp. Because of his features that made him seem far younger than he was, he was nicknamed, "The Kid".
