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Stuart Errol "Stu" Ungar (September 8, 1953 – November 22, 1998) was a professional poker, blackjack, and gin rummy player, widely regarded to have been the greatest Texas hold 'em and gin player of all time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.pokerpages.com/pokerinfo/hallofame/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】Mike Sexton">url=http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/pokergreats/stu-ungar01.htm )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/features/914/ )〕 He is one of two people to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times (Johnny Moss also has three WSOP titles but his first was obtained by a vote of the players, not by winning a tournament). He is also the only person to win Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker three times, the world's second most prestigious poker title during its time.〔 He is one of three players to win consecutive titles in the WSOP Main Event, along with Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan. ==Early life== Ungar was born to Jewish parents and raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father, Isadore ("Ido") Ungar, was a loan shark who ran a bar/social club called Foxes Corner that doubled as a gambling establishment, exposing Stu to gambling at a young age.〔 Despite Ido's attempts to keep his son from gambling after seeing its effects on his regular customers, Stu began playing underground gin and quickly made a name for himself.〔 Ungar was gifted at school and skipped seventh grade, but then dropped out of school in tenth grade.〔Dalla & Alson, p. 32〕 Ido died of a heart attack in 1966. Following his father's death, and with his mother virtually incapacitated by a stroke, Ungar drifted around the New York gambling scene until age 18, when he was befriended by reputed organized crime figure Victor Romano. Romano was regarded as one of the best card players of his time.〔Dalla & Alson, pp. 28, 42.〕 He had the ability to recite the spelling and definition of all of the words in the dictionary and apparently shared a penchant and interest for calculating odds while gambling as Ungar did. By many accounts the two developed a very close relationship with Romano serving as a mentor and protector. Ungar was infamous for his arrogance and for routinely criticizing aloud the play of opponents he felt were beneath him—which included just about anyone. One of Ungar's most famous quotes sums up his competitiveness: "I never want to be called a 'good loser.' Show me a good loser and I'll just show you a loser."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Stu Ungar - Poker Pro )〕 However, his relationship with Romano gave Ungar protection from various gamblers who did not take his crass attitude and assassin-like playing style kindly. One man reportedly tried to hit him in the head with a chair in a bar after Ungar soundly defeated him. Ungar would claim years later that the man was found shot to death a few days after the incident, although that has been disputed by others who knew Ungar at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stu Ungar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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