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The primary reason for why Stu changed from gin rummy to poker was that he was a tiny bit too good at it. So skilled in fact, that no player could stand up to him. Even the apparently experts who were meant to be the best at gin rummy were decimated when they faced Stu Ungar. One of these gin rummy masters was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Harry Stein suffered such a debilitating beating at the hands of mr. ungar that he allegedly stopped participating in it professionally and never resurfaced at a gin rummy tournament.

Accordingly, with a distinction like that it was not too long before people became afraid of competing against Stu Ungar. He couldn’t find any matches and in his boredom he started doing something no one had done prior. Stu provided starting handicaps to likely opponents with the hope that they might just compete opposed to him if they believed they had an advantage. He deliberately played from a negative position and one account has it that he even competed against a constant absconder. Amid the game, he get advice that the bad egg was at it once more but stu guaranteed that he knew of the cheating and he would still come away with a win, which he did, of course.

The same problem followed Stu Ungar to sin city. He won so much that the poker rooms began asking him not to bet in their poker rooms anymore. The explanation why was that other casino visitors would not sit at the poker table if he were playing.

Stu Ungar is recollected better for his accomplishments in hold’em poker but he himself always insisted that he was much more skilled at gin rummy.

He beat Doyle Brunson in the WSOP in 1980 and became the youngest world camp. Because of his looks that made him appear far younger than he really was, he got the nickname, "The Kid".

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