The basic reason why Stu Ungar changed from gin to poker was that Stu was a little too skilled at it. So good in fact, that no one possibly could stand up to him. Even the commonly called professionals who were meant to be the greatest at gin were decimated when they played against Mr. Ungar. One of these gin player was Harry Stein, nicknamed, "Yonkie". Harry suffered such a humiliating defeat at the hands of mr. ungar that he evidently stopped participating in it professionally and never resurfaced at a gin tournament.
Accordingly, with a distinction like that it was not too long before everyone became shy of gambling against stu. He could not find any matches and in his agony he began doing something no one had attempted prior. Stu began offering beginning handicaps to likely adversaries in the high hopes that they may compete opposed to him if they thought they held an advantage. He deliberately played from a disadvantageous position and one story has it that he even competed with a constant bad egg. Mid game, he received warnings that the bad egg was at it once more but stu stated that he knew of the cheating and he would still win, which he did, of course.
The same trend followed Stu Ungar into vegas. He won so often that the casinos began asking him not to wager in their respective premises anymore. The basis for it was that other casino players would not be seated at the poker table if he were playing.
Stu Ungar is remembered more for his abilities in holdem poker but he himself always said that he was considerably better at gin rummy.
He beat Doyle Brunson in the WSOP in Nineteen Eighty and became the youngest world champion. Due to his features that made him seem far younger than he was, he got the nickname, "The Kid".
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