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Originally Posted by borg23
Nobody is in here saying he was a good person. He was a deadbeat dad degenerate gambler druggy. He was also way ahead of his time in tournaments.
Stu Ungar wouldn't have been allowed to exist in the live poker world in 2024.
Is there anyone in the poker world today who has emulated his abusive antics that isn't permanently 86'd from CET/MGM/Sands et all?
OP referred to Tom Dwan as a crybaby copycat or something, and we have 5 pages of posts talking about how Ungar would have faired in modern poker.
I'll go back to my first sentence, we likely wouldn't know who Stu Ungar is if he were born 20-30 years later.
Stu Ungar on PokerStars/Full Tilt between 2004 and 2011 would have been an interesting conversation.
He could do all sorts of abusive antics in the privacy of his own home and no one would know and I have no-doubt he'd be recognized as one of the best.
We'd just know him as StueyNYC123 or something.
He probably should have been banned from poker rooms and the WSOP in the early 80s, if any of stories are indeed true.