yeah guys, you can criticise ungar all you want for his super gungho strategy and drug addiction but you cant disrespect sexton. he is a true ambassador for the game
There's really no good reason to believe Stu Ungar was the best player ever. If you account for the fact that his first wins at the WSOP were against 73 and 75 players, than he doesn't have a better tournament record than many professionals today (Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, et cetera).
There isn't reason to believe he was a winner at cash games. He always needed to be staked, and lots of the players he played with, Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson, won't confirm he was a winning player.
@PlayerPokerful Here s some wikipedia for you: Ungar's drug problem escalated to such a point that during the WSOP main event in 1990, Ungar was found on the third day of the tournament unconscious on the floor of his hotel room from a drug overdose. However, he had such a chip lead that even when the dealers kept taking his blinds out every time around the table Ungar still finished 9th and pocketed $20,500
@PlayerPokerful Heres more: He won a total of 10 major no-limit Texas hold 'em events (events in which the buy-ins were $5,000 or higher) despite only entering in 30 major tournaments in his life.
@PlayerPokerful During the 1992 World Series of Poker, Ungar faced off against Mansour Matloubi in a series of $50,000 buy-in no limit hold'em heads-up freezeout events. On the final hand of the game, Matloubi tried to bluff Ungar all-in for $32,000 on the river with a board of 3-3-7-K-Q. Ungar, who held 10-9, thought for a few seconds and said to Matloubi, "You have 4-5 or 5-6 so I'm gonna call you with this" and flipped over his 10-high to win the pot and bust Matloubi, who held what stu said
@PlayerPokerful He won 30 milion from poker (in those times !!!!) not a winning player? wtf dude? He also won massive on gin rummy. He gambeled it all on horses and random shit like that. He was degenerate gambler. He once won 1.5 milion on horses in one night. That should give you a good estimate how did he bet..................
@PlayerPokerful He won more than 30.000.000 only in poker, gin rommy not counted, in these days, that would be today about 150.000.000, and lost it all gambling on horses and shit. I think you just made a comment without knowing anything about poker history
Yes, Stu Unger was a great NLHE player, but he also lost a lot too. He played the WSOP many years after his initial 2 wins and didn't even place. He won when there were only a few hundred players in the early years. He just had a crazy style that was very aggressive and resulted in big wins accompanied by huge losses. He would go on to lose every penny that he won at the poker table on other betting losses, such as golf and horse racing. Also he was a drug addict.
@1stPlaceDirector Doyle Brunson acknowledged ST UNGAR as the most Winingest player he ever saw, yet you say brunson doesnt give stuey any credit, oh and stuey BEAT brunsen heads up and won WSOP 1980, Brunsen LSOT, phil Ivey hasnt won ANY wsops, Stuey won 3, and also yes the firlds are larger now, full of DONKS apart from a hardcore minority of good players, back in the day it was mostly all professionals and killer-players, no DONKS thanks to Moneymaker effect, get your facts straight pal!
@serratop Really? Well, that makes Stu Ungar's achievement of winning the WSOP even more extroardinary..I wonder what it would have been like to play against him heads up. I play draw poker and I bet even if he had little experience in draw he would still wipe the floor with me. hehe :)
mike sexton is a class act, a true ambassador for the poker world, a great player in his own right and of course best friend to the late, great and impossible to emulate STU UNGAR, i pay tribute to them both! :)
yeah guys, you can criticise ungar all you want for his super gungho strategy and drug addiction but you cant disrespect sexton. he is a true ambassador for the game
weatherallc05 1 month ago
stuey!
sneak108 1 month ago
There's really no good reason to believe Stu Ungar was the best player ever. If you account for the fact that his first wins at the WSOP were against 73 and 75 players, than he doesn't have a better tournament record than many professionals today (Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, et cetera).
There isn't reason to believe he was a winner at cash games. He always needed to be staked, and lots of the players he played with, Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson, won't confirm he was a winning player.
PlayerPokerful 3 months ago
@PlayerPokerful You obviously know NOTHING about poker or poker history, noobie, lol
memyselfandeye3 2 months ago
@PlayerPokerful Here s some wikipedia for you: Ungar's drug problem escalated to such a point that during the WSOP main event in 1990, Ungar was found on the third day of the tournament unconscious on the floor of his hotel room from a drug overdose. However, he had such a chip lead that even when the dealers kept taking his blinds out every time around the table Ungar still finished 9th and pocketed $20,500
Boleslav69 2 months ago
@PlayerPokerful Heres more: He won a total of 10 major no-limit Texas hold 'em events (events in which the buy-ins were $5,000 or higher) despite only entering in 30 major tournaments in his life.
Boleslav69 2 months ago
@PlayerPokerful During the 1992 World Series of Poker, Ungar faced off against Mansour Matloubi in a series of $50,000 buy-in no limit hold'em heads-up freezeout events. On the final hand of the game, Matloubi tried to bluff Ungar all-in for $32,000 on the river with a board of 3-3-7-K-Q. Ungar, who held 10-9, thought for a few seconds and said to Matloubi, "You have 4-5 or 5-6 so I'm gonna call you with this" and flipped over his 10-high to win the pot and bust Matloubi, who held what stu said
Boleslav69 2 months ago
@PlayerPokerful He won 30 milion from poker (in those times !!!!) not a winning player? wtf dude? He also won massive on gin rummy. He gambeled it all on horses and random shit like that. He was degenerate gambler. He once won 1.5 milion on horses in one night. That should give you a good estimate how did he bet..................
Boleslav69 2 months ago
@PlayerPokerful He won more than 30.000.000 only in poker, gin rommy not counted, in these days, that would be today about 150.000.000, and lost it all gambling on horses and shit. I think you just made a comment without knowing anything about poker history
serratop 1 month ago
Yes, Stu Unger was a great NLHE player, but he also lost a lot too. He played the WSOP many years after his initial 2 wins and didn't even place. He won when there were only a few hundred players in the early years. He just had a crazy style that was very aggressive and resulted in big wins accompanied by huge losses. He would go on to lose every penny that he won at the poker table on other betting losses, such as golf and horse racing. Also he was a drug addict.
1stPlaceDirector 4 months ago
@1stPlaceDirector Doyle Brunson acknowledged ST UNGAR as the most Winingest player he ever saw, yet you say brunson doesnt give stuey any credit, oh and stuey BEAT brunsen heads up and won WSOP 1980, Brunsen LSOT, phil Ivey hasnt won ANY wsops, Stuey won 3, and also yes the firlds are larger now, full of DONKS apart from a hardcore minority of good players, back in the day it was mostly all professionals and killer-players, no DONKS thanks to Moneymaker effect, get your facts straight pal!
memyselfandeye3 2 months ago
hardly ever played no limit holdem poker and then won the WSOP! lol. Some people play for years and don't even make a final table, hehe
8bobthebuilder 5 months ago
@8bobthebuilder Wrong, they dont even make the first day
serratop 1 month ago
@serratop Really? Well, that makes Stu Ungar's achievement of winning the WSOP even more extroardinary..I wonder what it would have been like to play against him heads up. I play draw poker and I bet even if he had little experience in draw he would still wipe the floor with me. hehe :)
8bobthebuilder 1 month ago
genius iq and photographic memory in a corrupted world omg
ghodium 8 months ago
This guy looks like vince Vince McMahon!
optimusprimevil1984 9 months ago 4
thanks " 123serg123 ", i appreciate your support :)
memyselfandeye3 1 year ago
He was the Bobby Fischer of chess is a fairly retarded comment though. I do like Sexton; that should circumscribe my comment.
Alceste1977 1 year ago
@Alceste1977 hmmm you know that comment is actually a quote of stu ungars own words?
ThePaul1E 1 year ago 4
@ThePaul1E Yeah I saw it on the documentary about him, it's still fairly retarded.
Alceste1977 11 months ago
@Alceste1977 Stu Ungar OWNED poker the way Fischer OWNED chess. No need to read into it any further.
ilovebrandnewcarpets 9 months ago
@Alceste1977 why?
fearlessftw 7 months ago
MIke is a very nice guy
pokerpooner 1 year ago 14
mike sexton is a class act, a true ambassador for the poker world, a great player in his own right and of course best friend to the late, great and impossible to emulate STU UNGAR, i pay tribute to them both! :)
memyselfandeye3 1 year ago 26
@memyselfandeye3 thumbs up
123serg123 1 year ago