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    ("Ido") Ungar, was a bookmaker and loan shark who ran a bar/social club called Foxes Corner that doubled as a gambling establishment, exposing Stu to gambling...
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  • High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story is a 2003 biopic focusing on the life of American professional poker and gin player Stu Ungar. Stuey is the film's alternate...
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    Rummy. Las Vegas: Gambler's Book Club. Ungar, Stu (June 29, 2006). One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar (documentary). USA: Szymanski, Al. Michael...
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    this include Main Event champions such as Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan and Dan Harrington. Famously, Straus's 1982 win was a comeback...
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  • of Nitra, Slovakia Shmueli Ungar, American singer Simon Ungar (1864–1942), rabbi of the Osijek Jewish Community Stu Ungar (1953–1998), a professional...
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    Sexton was a well-known cohort of poker player Stu Ungar, and was a pallbearer and speaker at Ungar's funeral. On the World Poker Tour (WPT), Sexton had...
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    I Shot Andy Warhol, Last Man Standing, Shark Tale, High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story, and Summer of Sam, which he also co-wrote and co-produced. He also...
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  • times: Johnny Moss (1970, 1971, and 1974), Doyle Brunson (1976 and 1977), Stu Ungar (1980, 1981, and 1997) and Johnny Chan (1987 and 1988). Bracelet winners...
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    Moss and Stu Ungar have won the Main Event three times; Ungar is the only one to have won three times in the freeze-out format. Moss, Ungar, Doyle Brunson...
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    that he met fellow legends Doyle Brunson, Puggy Pearson and eventually Stu Ungar. Baxter has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets over four decades...
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    1991. Gabe Kaplan became the first winner of this tournament series and Stu Ungar won the title three times. The video game Amarillo Slim Dealer's Choice...
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  • youngest player to win the WSOP Main Event (a record previously set by Stu Ungar in 1980). Had Chan won, he would have tied Johnny Moss's record of three...
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  • enter the tournament, with the top 27 players finishing in the money. Stu Ungar won the Main Event for a record-tying third time. *Career statistics prior...
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    famous players from the former Mayfair Club in New York City, including Stu Ungar, Jay Heimowitz, Mickey Appleman, Howard Lederer, Jason Lester, Steve Zolotow...
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    Fisher Jim Fugatti Lynn Harvey A.J. Myers Bobby Schwing Lakewood Louie Stu Ungar 1981 Ed Barmach Frank Cardone Fred David Sid Gamerman Ruth Godfrey Bruce...
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    cashes are: 1972 (3rd), 1980 (runner-up to three-time Main Event winner Stu Ungar), 1982 (4th), 1983 (3rd), 1997 (16th), 2004 (53rd), and 2013 (409th)....
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  • (1995), Just Write (1997), Blast from the Past (1999), High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (2003), The A Plate (2011) and The Discoverers (2012). In addition...
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  • the final table had nine players. On the third day of the tournament, Stu Ungar was found unconscious on the floor of his hotel room from a drug overdose...
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  • Nothing. He was also featured in an E! documentary special along with Stu Ungar called THS Investigates: Vegas Winners & Losers. An episode of the television...
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  • Stu Ungar, a three-time World Series of Poker champion widely regarded as one of the greatest Texas hold'em and gin rummy players of all time. Ungar was...
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    Fisher Jim Fugatti Lynn Harvey A.J. Myers Bobby Schwing Lakewood Louie Stu Ungar 1981 Ed Barmach Frank Cardone Fred David Sid Gamerman Ruth Godfrey Bruce...
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    Professor Stevens The Biggest Fan Richard Limp 2003 High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story Mr. Leo Yes, Dear Karate Teacher Episode: "When Jimmy Met Greggy"...
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    decade 1970s 7 Johnny Moss 1970, 1971 (2), 1974, 1975, 1976, 1979 1980s 4 Stu Ungar 1980, 1981 (2), 1983 1990s 5 Phil Hellmuth 1992, 1993 (3), 1997 2000s...
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  • final hand with the best hand, A8 to Ungar's A4. He led until a deuce on the river made a wheel for Ungar, giving Stu the victory and his third world championship...
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    Billie Beat Bobby Lornie Kuhle Television Movie 2003 High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story Jimmy D. 2016 The Guest House Abe 2019 7 Days to Vegas Duke also...
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  • High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story was distributed by New Line Cinema in 2003. Vidmer's film chronicled the life and death of Stu Ungar, a famously genius...
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    Fisher Jim Fugatti Lynn Harvey A.J. Myers Bobby Schwing Lakewood Louie Stu Ungar 1981 Ed Barmach Frank Cardone Fred David Sid Gamerman Ruth Godfrey Bruce...
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    Fisher Jim Fugatti Lynn Harvey A.J. Myers Bobby Schwing Lakewood Louie Stu Ungar 1981 Ed Barmach Frank Cardone Fred David Sid Gamerman Ruth Godfrey Bruce...
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  • Main Event included Poker Hall of Famers T. J. Cloutier, Chip Reese, Stu Ungar, Jack Keller, and 1992 WSOP Main Event winner Hamid Dastmalchi. But it...
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    in Wonder Steve Joe Dirt Hood 2003 Ed Sandy Buckman High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story Anthony 2005 Duane Hopwood Steve Must Love Dogs Vinnie Meet the...
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