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(‘stuart errol ungar’ (1953 – 1998) was a professional ‘poker’ and ‘gin rummy’ player, widely considered to have been the greatest ‘texas hold’em’ and ‘gin rummy’ player of all time)
(he is one of only two people to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times (‘johnny moss’ also has three WSOP titles but his first was obtained by a vote of the players, not by winning a tournament))
(on ’22 november 1998′, stu ungar was found lying dead, facedown on his bed at the ‘oasis motel’ in ‘las vegas’ with $882 on him, the remnants of a $10,000 advance from ‘bob stupak’, who earlier in the month signed a contract with ‘ungar’, offering to pay off Ungar’s debts and finance tournament play in exchange for future winnings)
(it is still unknown to this day where the remainder of the money went)
(but the book, “Aces and Kings”, by ‘michael kaplan’ and ‘greg reagan’, quotes an anonymous ‘longtime friend’ of Ungar’s who claims to know what happens)
(he claims “stuey bought a bunch of crack and picked up 2 hookers who like to troll near the ‘oasis’…once they found out how much money Stuey had on him” – presumably a good chunk of Stupak’s $10k – “he was as good as dead. They pushed him to smoke enough so that he went into convulsions – which Stuey was prone to do. The convulsions came, they took the drugs and most of the money, and left Stuey for dead”)
(no drugs, not even paraphanalia were found in the room, which is incredibly inconsistent with stuey’s behavior)
(an autopsy showed traces of drugs in his system, but not enough to have directly caused his death)
(the medical examiner concluded that he had died of a heart condition brought on by his years of ‘drug abuse’)
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