bank and deposit it to have the funds available to write a check first. Legacy Ungar is regarded by many poker analysts and insiders as one of the greatest pure-talent players ever to play the game, but his long-time friend Mike Sexton said, "In the game of life, Stu Ungar was a loser." During his poker career, he won five WSOP bracelets, and over $3,600,000 in tournament pay with over $2,000,000 coming from cashes at the WSOP. He won a total of 10 major no-limit Texas hold 'em events (buy-ins $5,000 or higher) out of a total of 30 major tournaments he entered in his life, a record still unsurpassed in percentage terms. Ungar also won the Main Event at the now-defunct Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker in 1984, 1988 and 1989, when it was considered by the poker world the world's second most prestigious poker title. As Amarillo Slim himself put it, "Stu musta won a million dollars in my tournaments." A movie based loosely on his life, High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story (alternate title Stuey), was made in 2003. He was portrayed by Michael Imperioli. Stu Ungar was inducted posthumously into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2001. His biography, One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey 'the Kid' Ungar, the World's Greatest Poker Player by Nolan Dalla and Peter Alson was published in 2005. The Emmy-winning ESPN documentary One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stu Ungar was broadcast in 2006. It contained interviews with his wife and daughter and several other people who knew him. It also featured excerpts from tapes he recorded in the last year of his life for an autobiography that never appeared. World Series of Poker bracelets Notes References External links Review of biography of Ungar Stu Ungar Hendon Mob tournament results 1953 births 1998 deaths American blackjack players American gin players American poker players Jewish American sportspeople World Series of Poker bracelet winners World Series of Poker Main Event winners Super Bowl of Poker event winners Cocaine-related deaths in Nevada Drug-related deaths in Nevada People from the Lower East Side Sportspeople from Manhattan Poker Hall of Fame inductees 20th-century American Jews