STU UNGAR : Story of the Greatest Poker Player

Stu Ungar is known as one of the greatest poker players of all time who has won 3 WSOP main events.He was also the best gin rummy player ever.He was known for his genius IQ and photographic memory and was a phenomenal poker player.This is a poker documentary about the life and rise and fall of Stu Ungar and the struggles he had to face in his life and how he went on to be one of the most famous poker players of all time.
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[@MisterReid]

Wow i never knew multiple deck shoes started because of Stuey

[@sumyungchong]

Fun fact Stu Ungers joined 30 major tournaments and won 10 of them. Yes won 1st place 10/30 lol that's insane

[@Wooden_iguana14]

Even cashing in 10/30 major tournaments is impressive, what a run of dominance.

[@JohnnyAppleseed-yl6fo]

It is definitely impressive, but he wouldn't be able to do that today. He competed against much smaller fields and his opponents weren't as good as players are today.

[@fredyflores5391]

​@@JohnnyAppleseed-yl6fobeing smart have nothing to do with time.

[@johnzimmerman340]

Once again there is confusion about the 1990 main event. The claim that he never showed up for the final table is contrary to my own recollection of that event. I remember him busting out in 9th and leaving the table. I was there when Matloubi defeated Hans "Tuna" Lund. I was also there in 1997 when Stu won the event for the third time. I recall that he passed by me while on a break and I could clearly see his collapsed nostril from the cocaine. Stu confirms the old adage that more people have been ruined by success than failure.

[@jonathansage9063]

Wow. very cool. Do you remember any specific hands Stu played?

[@J0k3rz]

@@jonathansage9063its not even true

[@EmperorNerox]

Did u rail some lines w the master ?

[@TaipanPete]

Mandela effect.

[@stuartjackson3449]

Guy needs Scorsese to make a film about his life !

[@kingkiller_1001]

Yes.... Perfect director

[@CADILLAKTRACKZ]

Thanks, he's Number 1 in my book

[@macysondheim]

He was the greatest poker player of all time…. What a legend ❤️‍🔥📿

[@johnsimmons8456]

i remember playing stu heads up back in 82 in vegas. I took him for $50k the first game and he took me for $70k the 2nd game. Then he spent the remaining $20k on blow and hookers lol. He was a legend.

[@timmccafferty8949]

No. In straight up or tour play, sure. Just suggest you could beat him High Low Split, and you're rich. I can't stand his poker play completely over looks who the man was. An unapologetic drug addict and punk who relied on casino security to prevent him from getting his scrawny neck broke. I never play straight up, or in a tournament with him, but, I did bend him over in a game of High Low Split. He spent most the night throwing his losers at the dealer.

[@AmericanMysticDegenerate]

Damn man, damn. That's the bobby fisher of gambling. Seems like the truest geniuses are also a complete wreck at the same time. Wish we got to see him live for more years and absolutely dominate

[@Bradydog-in7ut]

The famous poker player and announcer, Mike Sexton, was one of the few that kept trying to help Stuey out but there was no saving him. Can you imagine what he might have accomplished with a clear head?

[@mrgainz7252]

Crazy how once in a generation people like this always seem messed up, it's like their brain is wired so sharp it's hard to focus in daily life, they constantly strive for more and can't take daily life, like an obsession eating them alive , the higher the bar set the worse everything else gets around them. I suppose it's a drive that comes at a cost to balance out for the rest of us or it just wouldn't be fair 😂

[@Desi365]

5:55 is that the helicopter pilot in Magnum:pi ?

[@kingkiller_1001]

Only a few 3x wsop champs and Stu was one of them.... Grant that the fields were smaller back then... But still

[@macysondheim]

One of the greatest athletes of our generation, icon for many, A Hero to up-&-coming poker players across the globe.

[@magiller2010]

Athletes ?

[@JohnnyAppleseed-yl6fo]

Stuey was not an athlete.

[@johnreape2833]

A poker player is not an athlete.

[@GetArkd]

Athlete 😂😂😂😂

[@johnreape4353]

@@GetArkd Stu Unger and Ralph Levit, were supposed to play me and Roger Moore, 2 on 2 in basketball, for $10,000 a man ( 1979). Stuey, backed out!!

[@kingkiller_1001]

Can you imagine getting blinded off an entire day and still cashed out....

[@garygwinn4256]

This is the greatest card player ever. Geniuses focus on NL Hold Em now. STU was the Greatest Gin Rummy Player ever, was the greatest Blackjack advantage player of his time, and the Best at every form of poker, 7-Stud, 7 Stud Hi Low, 7 Stud Hi Low Declare, 5 draw, 5 draw Lowball, Hold-em, Pot Limit Hold-Em, No Limit Hold-Em. If a card game involved $, he was gonna dominate it.

[@johnreape2833]

Chip Reese was the best "ring player", of all time. Stuey was one of the best.

[@podunkcitizen2562]

He also lost a lot of money betting on sports. He said he liked sports betting because cards were too easy and he knew the outcome. In sports betting there were too many variables to control.

[@EmperorNerox]

Stu was the best ever . You can argue Phil Ivey is the best as he's won online, cash, tournaments, and every game he's played . But you don't hear stories of Ivey being about to give the last 18 cards left in the deck or betting bob stupak 10k that he could give the last card of a 6 deck shoe after they turned over 1 by 1 in front of him. Card and numbers genius. The yeyo got to him but it got to Layne flack, Mike matusow, , Gavin Smith, seebok, etc alot of players do heavy drug use .

[@TaipanPete]

Yeah I got nothing against him for wanting to party and have fun that's his choice. Stu the goat.

[@johnreape2833]

Stuey wasn't the best cash player. He was the smartest player however.

[@andrewptob]

Are you literally just reading his Wikipedia page?

[@easytofool]

yes almost all the narration on this page is verbatim taken from other articles/wikipedia entries. it's a good page but that rubs me the wrong way.

[@fodolocraigo8426]

Lmao Right

[@krock2step]

Literally

[@Vikii2024]

Ya he just did that

[@DrSpoculus]

Yup.

[@slizzardshroomer9666]

He looks like Charlie from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with the haircut of Charlie from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

[@Nash9r]

Imagine him surviving and being on Team Full Tilt in the poker boom, battling it out with Dwan, Isildur, Ivey and Antonius online and now playing High Stakes Duel against Hellmuth. Also being guest on Poker Podcasts and playing an online HU challenge against Phil Galfond.

[@_Coffee4Closers]

He would be destroyed by the modern players.

[@yankees29]

@@_Coffee4Closers no ways stu could hold his own with any of those guys. Stu was a nightmare heads up like Galfand.

[@da3v1ls93]

I doubt a savuant like Stu would get dominated by the new breed

[@holybiblelive2201]

Battle????????

[@cbrreezzyy69]

@@_Coffee4Closers he had a photographic memory. He would be able to bring up any pre or post flop chart just by blinking. He could have every solver solution memorized. It’s not just any old poker player going up against the new generation.

[@stianw.danielsen2943]

Wish there were more videos of Stuey playing. I read his book once per year. Amazing stories. Also in Sextons book there is a lot of great ones. Imagine if no drugs and just play. He would be GOAT without question.

[@48tilt]

Agee . He was a genius

[@phule5616]

His brain is built different but the Italins introduced him to cocaine

[@wildestcowboy2668]

When I met him in 96 he looked up and he said he was going back to his room. He looked tired but I don't think in tournaments he could be beat if not on coke.

[@TexasNewsOwL]

A bookie like draft kings or Fox Sports Book. Yes the tv fox isn't much different than a pillmil doctor. The street bookie is like a herion dealer and a legal outfit like fox and draft kings is like a doctor giving out pain killer scripts and samples. They all want you to get hooked sothey cantake everything you own and don't give a fk.

[@Moneyovertruth]

Coulda said a lot more accomplishments and some of his crazy giving money away to ppl... he was a super giving dude to a fault... show the legend some respect... everyone has their problems... trash

[@jt55106]

Five adds in a 12 minute video? WTF KZbin

[@PAPITO_49]

Maybe you could do a bio on Chip Resse.

[@johnreape2833]

He was the best. I was good friends with Roger Moore, who was also a great player. Stuey was the smartest of the top players, and clearly one of the best, but not the best.

[@TheOfficialSlingRaw]

If Stu Ungar was alive today, poker after dark and high stakes poker wouldn’t even be on Tv. He would destroyed all of them. No one stood a chance next to him. He would of ended the game, before it even started. RIP to the Greatest of all Time. Rest well king

[@EmperorNerox]

Wouldn't go that far but he'd definitely be top of the pack

[@derricklarsen2919]

The thought of him telling Phil Hellmuth how shitty a holdem player he is kind of amuses me

[@TheTruthfulAsshole]

All the trash I hear about "modern game" is just that. Legends are great in any era. Unger was the Bobby Fischer of Poker.

[@easytofool]

well it's true that guys like Ungar, Siedel and Brunson would be good in any era. But there were a lot of pros pre-boom that exploited how little everyone knew about the game and once the average player became a little better they ceased to be profitable

[@CRAIG5835]

Just finished listening to Stu's beloved daughter on a Poker Go interview with Remko, Live Pod, smart kid and obv Stu's daughter, poor guy, the Yeo clouded his psyche, his whole DNA, to a point where he divorced himself from reality after his son died and just fell further into oblivion, and now the history books.

[@USERNAMEfieldempty]

A cautionary tale.

[@bzen5917]

To add on to the story about giving a stranger on the street a $100, his friend asked if he knew the stranger. Stu said no, if he did he would have given him a $1000! That's what made him fearless at the table, he didn't see money as nothing more than "chips". He was able to separate his emotions from the money which is really a true sign of a pro.

[@jeffw8218]

Which is always why he was a complete wreck of a person, total addict, and died basically penniless despite winning millions.

[@EmperorNerox]

@@jeffw8218 and thats the best way to die, spend it all can't bring it w you . Though he should have set some asid for his daughter. But he had fun and is a legend forever . It's ok to be butthurt because no one will remember you and your "smart" way of living ahahahha

[@jeffw8218]

@@EmperorNerox Kek, useful idiots such as yourself have no idea how wrong you are. I guess ignorance is bliss, but only when a person is too dumb to function in society.

[@PAPITO_49]

Money is just inventory.

[@johnreape2833]

@@jeffw8218 That is correct. You have to value the money, but not to the degree that you fear losing it. That is the reason most very good poker pros aren't able to handle the very high limits.

[@bartjohnston]

Childhood trauma DOES catch up with us if we do not deal with it

[@tacticalpossum7090]

Sure he was a legendary gambler, but can you think of anything more emasculating that leaving nothing behind for your children after having more money than multiple families could earn over their entire lives?

[@kingkiller_1001]

Goat for poker and Gin

[@bruceim3290]

Some ppl still uses there fingers to count when they play poker legend say Stu stop using he’s fingers when he was in first grade

[@Denver10215]

Savage

[@mikehunt6867]

Stu Unger's two biggest monetary wins in his life came from betting on horse racing, this is a terrible "documentary".

[@trav2190]

He was 26/27 years old at his first wsop lol (24)

[@misclic2408]

ty..but..we ve seen these a million times ..also, i believe single deck shoe blackjack stopped much later & main reason was the "mit gang" .. so w all the respect ..how about some recent players ..addamo ..mexican & of course plo high stakers ..action freak ech

[@robertthomason8905]

He and I have much in common. You are the Flippin best. Screw anyone who says different. You may have intentionally pissed players off.. I usually dont realize Im doing it. I wish I could do the Spock mind Meld thing. lets see tonight.

[@douglashagan65]

Father try to keep him from gambling as a kid but it kept on playing cards he played gin Romney played poker he could play all the games the kid would never quit finally they gave him 10,000 bucks some rich guy in front of them cuz he was a great card counter he could tell you what that card you got your hand no matter what he could tell from body language exactly what when you get the tail in when you're going to bluff when you're going to raise a guy some master genius like something of getting $10,000 took him to his casino so he could go

[@T-roc57]

Race tracks, sports betting, craps & table games the house always wins in the long run.

[@48tilt]

Zeljko would disagree

[@Joelsmediahere]

He won more than just 10k.

[@tucko11]

Christopha!

[@MotownShaker]

Stu broke his nose when he slipped spraying for ants

[@abstraction6212]

The original King of games before atem took that title?

[@B0bi_007]

Whats the movie in the background in the beginning with the kid? Actually, what's the whole movie in the whole video? Thanks!

[@D1G1TALFOX]

High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003) . . . 😎

[@B0bi_007]

@@D1G1TALFOX ty

[@Wooden_iguana14]

@@D1G1TALFOX thought it was just footage of the sopranos poker episodes 🤣

[@Wooden_iguana14]

How are the sunglasses gonna cover up the collapsed nose 🤔

[@D1G1TALFOX]

Well Done . . . 😎 R.I.P ❤️ ♠️

[@jayfromaz]

Poker was a lot different back then. Didn't have the computer analysis that we have today. The fields were tiny compared to today. Top players today are far more aggressive than they were back then. Many more players today play the style like he did. But in the end he ended up broke. So many players today made millions and have ended up broke. And unfortunately he died of a drug overdose.

[@seemeinabmw]

Him himself

[@douglashagan65]

This is the greatest poker player all time is still Unger it's the world series of poker I got to the final f****** table that's why I met this guy he was all in he had already two-time world series poker champion the guy was worth millions he just bought a house got married is that a kid that was about 45 years old I knew it was a deep s*** he was at the final table everybody's been knocked out

[@andrewdelacalzada2742]

Wow that was sad

[@againbanglue8117]

Baazigar?😇

[@sergioe6506]

Hey that was a great video if you could make the argument between who is being is the most top feared player between Stu Ungar and Phil I be I have to give a huge Edge just do monger

[@danhamilton7064]

In 1986 I took a 20k bet from Ungar. It was a Cubs/Braves game. He lost.

[@HappyTofu2424]

He's number 2 for me right behind Phil Ivey. Would probably be undisputed GOAT if he had not gotten into drugs and managed his money better. Such a shame how his life went

[@HappyTofu2424]

@Travis L In terms of pure play-reads, understanding the odds, playing the game, I think he's the best to ever do it. I'd have loved to see him go against like Fedor or Bryn or Bonomo. Can you picture Stu doing a heads up 25k hands challenge omg would be incredible. For me though at the end of the day, poker is a game about making money. It's difficult for me to rank the GOAT some guy who finished his career without any money and constantly borrowing money-when Stu finished he was bankrupt and had no money to his name and his funeral had to be fundraised through charity. You can argue those were due to lifestyle choices or something but Stu had no discipline at all with his money and managing your bankroll is a critical part to long term poker success. Phil Ivey currently has an estimated net worth over $100m and might finish his career having made well over $200-$300m. The dude still has 40+ years of playing easily if he wants.

[@tonigr13]

Hes reading wiki!? Lmao.. im going to search a good video of him..

[@2msvalkyrie529]

He was a millionaire...but had no nose..?? Hmmm.......?

[@erniececil6668]

That's some fucking snout that. Fair play on the chap though ✌

[@tobias132]

Very interesting video, well done!

[@PokerBounty]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Tynnyri_]

cocaine's a hell of a drug

[@ryanstevenson1364]

Greatest ever is Phil Ivey

[@da3v1ls93]

Phil ivey is the greatest of our generation. Stu Unger is the GOAT

[@bringerofchaos7953]

Hmmmm interesting..... to the moon with you!🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀😈

[@douglashagan65]

The guy died at 45 in a hotel room broke until he got hooked up on the stuff so many women and s*** I don't know what happened but it went all bad just goes to show man when the casinos have the odds maybe they take just a little bit but they keep taking from you all the time to walk out bust

[@jaycareaga9929]

He started doing coke as a result of his mom dying.

[@lifeandnature-video]

How can u call a man like that the greatest? He was a gambling addict , he destroyed his life, how much money did he have when he died, how old was he? Now again , tell me , how can he be the greatest of all time?

[@samhoogstraten3449]

you don't understand and never will

[@georgem3673]

Marked cards and tinted glasses to read them!

[@jharrell29]

When you have a mind like stu had who needs marked cards. He was trying to hide his disfigured nose. He had destroyed it with cocaine.

[@RoadTripzz14]

@@jharrell29 Re Stu’s nose: You are correct. I knew his ex wife a little bit she used to work in one of the retail stores at Forum Shops. Stu actually had an operation to correct his deviated septum (I think) caused by cocaine abuse but he was unable to stay off Colombian marching powder long enough afterwards and essentially reinjured the nose. Re Stuey being GOAT: In terms of raw savant Bobby Fisher like talent possibly yes. He leaked like a panga trying to make La Jolla though. Horse racing, dice, women god knows what else. So he failed miserably at the finish line.

[@PissyKnish]

Anyone that ugly was almost certainly cheating.