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Texas hold 'em and gin player of all time.[1][2][3][4]He is one of two people in poker history 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.[3] He is one of four players in poker history to win consecutive titles in the WSOP Main Event, along with Johnny Moss, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan. Early life[edit]Ungar was born to Jewish parents Isidore (1. Faye (1. 91. 6- 1. Ungar. He was raised on Manhattan's Lower East Side. His father, Isidore ("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.[5] 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.[6] Ungar was gifted at school and skipped seventh grade, but then dropped out of school in tenth grade.[7]Ido died of a heart attack on July 2.

Following his father's death, and with his mother virtually incapacitated by a stroke, Ungar drifted around the New York gambling scene until age 1. Victor Romano. Romano was regarded as one of the best card players of his time.[8] 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.

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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."[9] 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. Gin rummy and transition to poker[edit]Ungar won a local gin tournament at age 1. He dropped out of school to play gin rummy in the 1. By 1. 97. 6, he was regarded as one of the best players in New York.[4]Ungar eventually had to leave New York due to gambling debts at local race tracks. He later moved to Miami, Florida, to find more action. In 1. 97. 7, he left for Las Vegas, Nevada, where he reunited with Madeline Wheeler, a former girlfriend who would become his wife in 1.

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One of the reasons Ungar eventually took up poker exclusively was because gin action had dried up due to his skilled reputation. Ungar destroyed anyone who challenged him in a gin match including a professional widely regarded as the best gin player of Ungar's generation, Harry "Yonkie" Stein.

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Ungar beat Stein 8. Hollywood Gin, after which Stein dropped out of sight in gin circles and eventually stopped playing professionally.

As one observer who knew him put it, Stein "was never the same after that night."[1. After beating Stein and several other top gin professionals, Ungar was a marked man. Nobody wanted to play him in gin. In the hopes of generating more action for himself, Ungar began offering potential opponents handicaps to even the playing field. He was known to let his opponent (professional or not) look at the last card in the deck, offer rebates to defeated opponents and always play each hand in the dealer position, all of which put him at a strong disadvantage.[1]At the time Ungar first visited Las Vegas in 1. Ungar won or finished high in so many gin tournaments that several casinos asked him to not play in them because many players said they would not enter if they knew Ungar was playing.[1. Ungar later said in his biography that he loved seeing his opponent slowly break down over the course of a match, realizing he could not win and eventually get a look of desperation on his face.[6]Shortly after arriving in Las Vegas, Ungar defeated professional gambler Billy Baxter for $4.

Baxter noted when Ungar first entered the room, Baxter did not believe he was his opponent because of Ungar's youthful looks and small stature. Baxter also said that during their match, a Coca- Cola crate had to be placed on Ungar's chair so he could reach the table.[5]Though he is nowadays more well known for his poker accomplishments, Ungar regarded himself as a better gin rummy player, once stating,“Some day, I suppose it's possible for someone to be a better no limithold 'em player than me.

I doubt it, but it could happen. But, I swear to you, I don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me.”1. WSOP Main Event titles[edit]In 1. Ungar entered the World Series of Poker (WSOP) looking for more high- stakes action. In an interview for the 1.

Main Event Final Table, Ungar told ESPN TV commentator Gabe Kaplan that the 1. WSOP was the first time he had ever played a Texas hold'em tournament. Ungar's first tournament, however, was the 1. Super Bowl of Poker Main Event, which Kaplan himself won.

Stu finished 3. 4th of 4. Poker legend Doyle Brunson remarked that it was the first time he had seen a player improve as the tournament went on.[5][1. Ungar won the main event, defeating Brunson to become the youngest champion in its history (surpassed first by Phil Hellmuth in 1. Ungar looked even younger than he was, and was dubbed "The Kid."Ungar would defend his title successfully at the 1. WSOP by defeating Perry Green. Ungar was nearly not allowed to defend his title. Several days before the main event, he was banned from Binion's Horseshoe by Benny Binion because he spat in the face of a dealer after losing a sizable pot in a high- stakes game.

It was only when Binion's son, Jack, interceded and convinced his father to let Ungar play, citing the media attention that the defending champion would attract. Other WSOP bracelets[edit]As the reigning world champion, Ungar won his second bracelet in 1.

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They aren’t necessarily looking to be found. I’ve spent five years conducting ethnographic studies of the real vampires living in New Orleans and Buffalo. They are not easy to find, but when you do track them down, they can be quite friendly.“Real vampires” is the collective term by which these people are known. They’re not “real” in the sense that they turn into bats and live forever but many do sport fangs and just as many live a primarily nocturnal existence. These are just some of the cultural markers real vampires adopt to express a shared (and, according to them, biological) essence – they need blood (human or animal) or psychic energy from donors in order to feel healthy. Becoming a Vampire. Their self- described nature begins to manifest around or just after puberty.

It derives, according to them, from the lack of subtle energies their bodies produce – energies other people take for granted. That’s the general consensus anyway. It’s a condition they claim to be unable to change.

So, they embrace it. The real vampire community, like the legendary figure it emulates, knows few national boundaries, from Russia and South Africa to England and the United States. Particularly in the internet age, vampires are often well attuned to community issues. This is more true for some than others though. I found the vampires of Buffalo to be keen to keep up to date with the global community, while those in New Orleans were often more interested in the activities of their local vampire houses (an affiliated group of vampires usually led by a vampire elder who helps his or her house members to acclimate to their vampiric nature).

The Varied Vampire Community. Some houses, and indeed whole vampire communities, as in the case of New Orleans, will combine their efforts to organize charity events, like feeding (not feeding on) the homeless. However, despite their humanitarian efforts, real vampires don’t go around advertising who they are for fear of discrimination by people who simply don’t understand them. We spoke to John Edgar Browning in this episode of “It’s Only Science.”Some semblance of the real vampire community has existed since at least the early to mid- 1.

I entered the New Orleans community clinging to my digital voice recorder. I eventually met around 3. New Orleans is easily double that. They ranged in age from 1.

They practiced sanguinarian (blood) and psychic feeding – taking energy using, for example, the mind or hands. Blood is generally described by my study participants as tasting metallic, or “coppery” but can also be influenced by the donor’s physiology, or even how well he or she is hydrated.

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Afterwards, blood- drinking and psychic vampires feel energized or otherwise better than they would if they were to sustain themselves on regular food alone, like fruits, fish, and vegetables (which they eat too). These vampires described themselves as atheistic, monotheistic or polytheistic. Some identified as heterosexual, some homosexual and some bisexual. Some were married, some were divorced and some were parents. Unquestionably, I found the vampires I met to be competent and generally outwardly “normal” citizens. They performed blood- letting rituals safely and only with willing donors and participated regularly in medical exams that scarcely (if ever) indicated complications from their feeding practices.

Outside Mainstream Culture. What was perhaps most surprising about the vampires I met though was their marked lack of knowledge about vampires in popular culture. They seemed to know much less than you might expect – at least for vampires – about how their kind were depicted in books and films. By this I mean to say that the people I met with and interviewed hadn’t turned to drinking blood or taking psychic energy simply because they had read too many Anne Rice novels. In fact, the real vampire community in general seems to have appropriated very few of the trappings mainstream culture attaches to creatures of the night.

Many do dress in gothic clothes but certainly not all the time, and very, very few sleep in coffins. In fact, those vampire who do dress a certain way or wear fangs do so long after realizing their desire to take blood. This is what might be called a “defiant culture.” Real vampires embrace their instinctual need to feed on blood or energy and use what mainstream culture sees as a negative, deviant figure like the vampire to achieve a sense of self- empowerment. They identify others with a similar need and have produced a community from that need. But real vampires can also help us understand, and perhaps even shed, some of the ideological baggage each of us carries. They show us how repressive and oppressive categories can lead to marginalization.

Through them, we see the dark side of ourselves. More generally, this community shows that being different doesn’t have to force you onto the margins of society. Real vampires can and do exist in both “normal” society and their own communities, and that’s okay. Tv Links Homeland Season 3 Episode 2. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Top image by Tobias Arhelger/ Shutterstock.