Stu Ungar
The basic reason for why Stu Ungar switched from gin to poker was that he was a bit too skilled at it. So skilled was he, that no player possibly could equal him. Even the so-called professionals who were meant to be the greatest at gin were decimated when they competed with Stu Ungar. One of these gin rummy masters was Harry Stein, called, "Yonkie". Harry was handed such a belittling defeat at the hands of mr. ungar that he apparently stopped participating in it as a pro and never resurfaced at a gin tournament.
Accordingly, with a distinction like that it was not very long before people became shy of betting against Stu Ungar. He could find no matches and in his boredom he started doing something no one had done before. Stu provided beginning handicaps to potential adversaries in the wish that they might play opposed to him if they believed they held an advantage. He at will started from a bad position and one account has it that he even played against a consistent absconder. During the match, he received warnings that the cheater was at it one more time but stu assured that he was aware of the cheating and he would still actually win, which he did, of course.
The same problem followed Stu Ungar into vegas. He won so frequently that the poker rooms began asking him not to gamble in their rooms anymore. The explanation why was that other poker room visitors refused to sit at the table if Stu was playing.
Stu Ungar is recollected better for his abilities in texas holdem poker but he himself 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 champion. Because of his features that made him appear far younger than he really was, he got the nickname, "The Kid".
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