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Texas Holdem Poker Legends
Stu Ungar is considered by most to the greatest No Limit Texas Holdem Poker player ever.
The three times World Poker Champion was born in New York in 1953 and began playing poker before reaching his teens.
The young gambler started out playing gin and at the age of 10 had won his first gin rummy tournament, while on holiday with his parents. By the age of 14 the little poker maestro had turned professional and dropped out of school.
In 1954 Stu Ungar entered the record books by winning $10,000 in a gin rummy tournament without losing a single hand, a record which still stands in New York today.
The fast talking wiz kid has been compared, in poker terms, to sporting greats such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Stu Ungar had a real talent for playing poker but despite his successes in Texas holdem poker, he preferred playing gin.
Stu once said that there might some day be a better No Limit Texas Holdem player than him but he could not see how anyone could ever be a better gin player.
In 1980 Stu Ungar was put on the world map...
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Discover how to see your opponents hole cards online
For the world's millions of online Poker players, it's hard to turn around twice in a poker room without someone asking the question, "Can someone really use a tool to read my hand? This typically happens after someone at your table has exhibited near perfect play against a series of really wonderful hands that you had. It kind of makes one wonder, right?
Poker Calculators. These know only your own cards and because they are sometimes keyed to the exact brand of poker game that you are playing, they know the seating positions and can calculate how likely it is that your own cards can win based on the amount of money in the pot, your own seated position and the cards already shown on the table and in your hand.
Most of us are likely to bluff when we have a pretty good hand or even just a 4-5-6 pair. But some straight up players simply never bluff at all. When you see them push it all in on the table, in their mind they think they have the nuts. Some poker calculators that store information about mucked cards may allow you to determine with a...
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