For most poker players and fans Ungar is the best no-limit Hold’em player of all time, having won the World Championship a record three times. Son of a successful bookmaker, gambling was a part of Stu’s life from a young age. At 10 he started playing Gin Rummy and as a natural born hustler began taking money from middle-aged men all over New York, before winning $10,000 in a Gin Rummy competition at just 15.

He moved to Las Vegas at 22 and, as a relative unknown, the diminutive figure of Ungar suckered many a card shark into playing him at Gin Rummy for astronomical stakes.