Mike Sexton - Stu Ungar was a Genius

Poker legend, Mike Sexton, remembers his good friend, Stu Ungar, who most still believe was the best card player that ever lived.

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[memyselfandeye3]

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! :)

[pokerpooner]

MIke is a very nice guy

[weatherallc05]

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

[8bobthebuilder]

@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 :)

[serratop]

@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]

@8bobthebuilder Wrong, they dont even make the first day

[sneak108]

stuey!

[Boleslav69]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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

[memyselfandeye3]

@PlayerPokerful You obviously know NOTHING about poker or poker history, noobie, lol