{"id":29443,"date":"2013-07-03T08:16:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=29443"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:53:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:53:13","slug":"a-history-of-the-world-series-of-poker-stu-the-kid-ungar-1980-1981-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/a-history-of-the-world-series-of-poker-stu-the-kid-ungar-1980-1981-1997.html","title":{"rendered":"A History of the World Series Of Poker: \u2013 Stu &quot;The Kid&quot; Ungar (1980, 1981 &amp; 1997)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29447\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Stu-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To many Stu Ungar is regarded as the greatest raw talent the world ever saw grace the poker tables.<\/p>\n<p>Holding the record for being the only 3-time <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/live\">WSOP Main Event<\/a><\/strong> champion in history, banking over $2 million during his WSOP career and an estimated $30 million at the poker tables.<\/p>\n<h3>Back-to-Back<\/h3>\n<p>From his back-to-back titles at the birth of the 80s until his incredible comeback win in &#8217;97, the Kid&#8217;s life took a downward twist due to his personal addiction problems. However in a fine example of the human spirit fellow poker pro Billy Baxter bought the hugely in-debt Kid a seat to the 1997 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/live\">WSOP<\/a><\/strong>, this was also the only WSOP main event to be held outdoors.<\/p>\n<h3>Hat Trick<\/h3>\n<p>Ungar literally beat the odds collecting a third WSOP title and an even $1 million, which was split between himself and Baxter. Within 12 months he was broke again, and in late 1998 Stu &#8216;The Kid&#8217; Ungar passed away in a Las Vegas hotel due to a heart condition caused by the years of abuse. Yet he remains to this day as one of the greatest poker players (and personalities) of all time, period.<\/p>\n<h3>PartyPoker&#8217;s WSOP 2013 Journey<\/h3>\n<p>Stay upto date as we report from the The 2013 WSOP! Get all the latest PartyPoker updates from your favourite social media outlets. You can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/partypoker\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103316751505288317781\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To many Stu Ungar is regarded as the greatest raw talent the world ever saw grace the poker tables. Holding the record for being the only 3-time WSOP Main Event champion in history, banking over $2 million during his WSOP career and an estimated $30 million at the poker tables. Back-to-Back From his back-to-back titles<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/a-history-of-the-world-series-of-poker-stu-the-kid-ungar-1980-1981-1997.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":29964,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72397,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29443\/revisions\/72397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29443"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=29443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}