I was there Stu was a friend of mine then We both liked the blow. I stopped or cut back Stu couldn't I think of him alot he was a great friend. He was sometimes to good and some time very bad love you stu
This is amazing. I was 6 months old when this aired originally. Today I am a huge poker fan. Love all the history and characters. They truly were characters. Not the GTO/ICM drones so many are today.
It is a bit ironic, people are undeniably much much better at the actual game now, but man is it boring to watch, at least in tournaments. Was more fun to watch when people didn't know what they were doing lol. Can't blame them though, they're doing what gives them the best chances to win money and that's what a true poker player is.
STU STU STU THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM BUT IT WAS GREAT TO SEE IT AS IT WAS AND THROUGH IT ALL HE LEFT A WONDERFUL PERSON AND DAUGHTER STEPHANIE STUEY YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ME R.I.P GOAT 😇
I miss the old Las Vegas. Lots of fun back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Back in those days you was treated like a welcomed guest. Now they just beat you up, take your money, and kick you out.
Amazing to see this. Previously Ive only seen really short clips from the tournament. So great to have the whole thing. Thanks a lot for posting. I read a book about Stu Ungar and a description of this tournament plus a whole lot about Stueys tragic decline. But he's in his heyday here.
you mean when nobody had a clue how to play? I agree it's more boring now but people are undeniably 1000 times better at the game itself. Also the fact that you're saying that tells me you don't actually go out and play because the smaller stakes games haven't changed much at all.
@@Neurotik51 except they absolutely knew how to play. They were the best poker players in the world for that time. It's like saying Jerry West didn't know how to play basketball, because compared to todays skill level he would be outplayed. It's ridiculous. With your flawed logic, the best poker players today can't play either. Because 40 years from now the game will have advanced even further, and more efficient and successful strategies will exist. So the players today will be poor in comparison to future players... That's how life works. Ppl build on top of other peoples achievements. Saying they have no clue how to play is garbage. You can only judge ppl fairly by their competiton at the time. If you are one of the best at something difficult, during your lifetime, you deserve respect. OP is talking about personality, and he's absolutely right. A texas rounder or a NY street kid, beats a dork with a laptop every day of the week when it comes to entertainment.
Stu Ungar was from NY. He had a massive debt with the Mob. He begged to let him go to Las Vegas, because here was a Gim Rummy tournament. If he won, he could repay them with the prize money. They agreed and sent him... with a hit man. That hit man followed him everywhere to make sure there was (no drugs, no women, no alcohol). Stu Ungar won the tournament, and the hit man collected all the money. Stu complained : - Hey, can I have at least a bit ? - Are you insane? Listen Kid, you are lucky you are still breathing
they likely wouldn't have killed him. they probably would've just fucked him up. they actually like to collect money from people and you can't do that with a corpse
Thanks for posting..Who's the redhead that kissed Stu? ...it is ridiculous that they played this tournament with 500 and 1000 chips as the biggest in play...they spent more time counting and moving chips back and forth than they did playing cards....
@ Well, true, but they could have substituted in any number of chips for larger denoms......roulette chips, Pan chips, etc. once they saw it was being an issue.....which SHOULD have been 5 years earlier..........
In all of Stuey's final table appearances he ran godlike... Bill Smith misreading his hand, catching Stuey's bluff and Stuey sucks out... Perry catching an Ace vs Stuey's KK and Stuey hitting the K on the turn... Stuey's JJ hitting a set vs QQ...
Bobby Baldwin was taken out twice in Main Event Final Tables pushing all in with trip 99's as nuts vs QQ and twice his opponent hit a Queen on the river... Baldwin should have had a few more bracelets
Stu Unger story is pretty amazing... the drugs finally got him in the end sadly. RIP Unger (Mike Sexton was good friends with him RIP) Crazy thing was Stu would take his poker winnings and blow it all on the horses
Thank you commentators I won and lost my AE 86 like it's here and gone like these magic show, this game really can make and break somebody's day. Let's just play like this game for fun without someone dying ps I'm sure Santa says wish kinda granted
The one I’m trying to find is the 1980 World Series. I know it exists, but I’ve never seen the video. Been looking for that one for years. Even asked Stefanie Ungar about it. It’s like it disappeared.
@@brandonnel4687Where did you hear this from? I believe it exists. Surely there at least has to be a VHS somewhere. But I’ve also seen various clips from it.
@@Cornmolio Many places the footage is lost im very sure of it many tried to recover it but all has failed to do so.The VHS is all lost.I understand that you saw some clips of it but that is what was found.
47:58 there's a book called "One of a Kind" about Stu Ungar, and they tell a story specifically about this hand, and how a simple comment someone in the audience made that completely changed the way this hand was played & probably altered the course of poker history & Stu Ungar's life dramatically. Butterfly effect in full effect.
goes to show, even back then you have to get lucky multiple times to win a tournament .... when stu had the K5 of spades to make his flush vs the 7/6, he had 30% equity to win against the bigger turned pair.. and when he had the AQ vs Ak on the A33A board for a chop.... AQ vs. stu's KK ... Ace on the flop, King on the turn... LoL some guying crazy with 10/2 of clubs for his friend and doesn't improve... same ridiculous play.. fool also calls clock on Unger..
Puggy, Slim, and Doyle were the three musketeers back in the day. According to Puggy, each had their own focus. Slim wanted to get laid, Puggy wanted to drink, and Doyle wanted to play poker.
AWESOME video!!! "The Kid"..I had his biography.. Great read...(Can't remember the title..) And poker wasn't even his best game!!! GIN was !!! Many poker/gin pros are on record saying he was THE BEST. Is actually how he got his 💰💰💰nut to get into Poker. Died broke in a sleazy hotel. Alone... But when he was alive...he was ALIVE!!! R.I.P. Stu.... you were LEGENDARY!!!
It is so weird watching poker from the 1970s and 1980s, feels like a different surreal world, but it looks pretty cool except for the cigarette smoke! It must have been tough for non smoking players since they allowed smoking there. Also, notice how the announcers describe the game in the much simpler different way than today, like when they say he calls and then raises! They didn't have the right terminology down yet.
Yes,Stu was not a good player ,he was a great player.To win the 1981 WSOP main he got lucky alot by winning the flips with 55, hitting his flush on the river with K5 of spades,hitting a fullhouse with AQ against perry Greens AK fullhouse splitting the pot and Perry missing draws like theres he has zero luck .Stu Ungar got so lucky to win back to back and always was on the right side of the flop against Perry and got no bad beats.Lesson is aggressive players make alot of money when they don't miss😅
Who is the announcer??? He looks like the great Curt Gowdy... but sounds like Brent Muskberger... Whatever. This is a HISTORIC video. Gotta give a 👍 to RUclips algorithm that suggested this. In the middle of me watching Aerosmith and Stones concert vids...
he'd be a fish today with his skill level back then that being said it's likely he'd have the right mind for learning the modern game and do quite well once he learned it, but who knows the other pros you mentioned have done just that and adjusted their game to remain at the top today, had they not done that they'd also be fish
@@Neurotik51 yeah man and larry bird wouldn't do well in the NBA right now.. who cares? why does this comment hold any value? It only matters how they did during the time they actually existed..
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I was there Stu was a friend of mine then We both liked the blow. I stopped or cut back Stu couldn't I think of him alot he was a great friend. He was sometimes to good and some time very bad love you stu
So cool I could go to 1981 and watch a legend rip stu
Thanks for uploading this. Not a lot of videos of stu during his peak.
This is amazing. I was 6 months old when this aired originally. Today I am a huge poker fan. Love all the history and characters. They truly were characters. Not the GTO/ICM drones so many are today.
Are we twins? I was born 6 months after Mt. St. Helen's erupted.
@@darylmixan8170, we might be, Mt St Helens was May, Nov was a good month that year.
Exactly. Poker is so gay to watch now
It is a bit ironic, people are undeniably much much better at the actual game now, but man is it boring to watch, at least in tournaments. Was more fun to watch when people didn't know what they were doing lol. Can't blame them though, they're doing what gives them the best chances to win money and that's what a true poker player is.
I agree! Phil Helmuth is probably the last of those characters. Daniel Negreanu is great, but there will never be another Amarillo, or Doyle.
Bobby Baldwin...... what a legend. Possibly classiest player of all time.
Thank you! This was the best thing on RUclips poker related
STU STU STU THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM BUT IT WAS GREAT TO SEE IT AS IT WAS AND THROUGH IT ALL HE LEFT A WONDERFUL PERSON AND DAUGHTER STEPHANIE STUEY YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AN INSPIRATION TO ME R.I.P GOAT 😇
Why do you glorify a drug addict dead beat father
This is absolutely fantastic tyvm for this upload to many things to mention about this video of greatness back in the day
I was born in 86 & I feel so motivated when I watch the old school World Series…. like a trip down the time vault of the game I love 💯💯
I miss the old Las Vegas. Lots of fun back in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Back in those days you was treated like a welcomed guest. Now they just beat you up, take your money, and kick you out.
100% agree
Amazing to see this. Previously Ive only seen really short clips from the tournament. So great to have the whole thing. Thanks a lot for posting. I read a book about Stu Ungar and a description of this tournament plus a whole lot about Stueys tragic decline. But he's in his heyday here.
Before nerds ruined poker and people played with personality and grit.
you mean when nobody had a clue how to play? I agree it's more boring now but people are undeniably 1000 times better at the game itself. Also the fact that you're saying that tells me you don't actually go out and play because the smaller stakes games haven't changed much at all.
@@Neurotik51 except they absolutely knew how to play. They were the best poker players in the world for that time. It's like saying Jerry West didn't know how to play basketball, because compared to todays skill level he would be outplayed. It's ridiculous. With your flawed logic, the best poker players today can't play either. Because 40 years from now the game will have advanced even further, and more efficient and successful strategies will exist. So the players today will be poor in comparison to future players... That's how life works. Ppl build on top of other peoples achievements. Saying they have no clue how to play is garbage. You can only judge ppl fairly by their competiton at the time. If you are one of the best at something difficult, during your lifetime, you deserve respect. OP is talking about personality, and he's absolutely right. A texas rounder or a NY street kid, beats a dork with a laptop every day of the week when it comes to entertainment.
I'd like to get with that neuralink and give it a spin in macau
Pretty awesome to see a bad beat in 1981, I feel a little at ease now lol..
What an awesome game, wish I found it a lot earlier then my 30's
Poker Genius. One of the greatest, if not the greatest poker player of all time. 3 time WSOP main event champion. 🏆 🏆 🏆
1981 is the same timeframe from 2003 (When Moneymaker won) from 2025 WSOP to 2003 WSOP (when Moneymaker won)
String betting rule came into effect because of play like this 😆
"He's not only calling He's raising' 😅
Stu Ungar was from NY. He had a massive debt with the Mob. He begged to let him go to Las Vegas, because here was a Gim Rummy tournament. If he won, he could repay them with the prize money. They agreed and sent him... with a hit man. That hit man followed him everywhere to make sure there was (no drugs, no women, no alcohol). Stu Ungar won the tournament, and the hit man collected all the money.
Stu complained :
- Hey, can I have at least a bit ?
- Are you insane? Listen Kid, you are lucky you are still breathing
Didn't see the story in his BIO...
it is in his biography. ONE OF A KIND
Very very interesting, I never knew that!
Good ol Boogar sugar Stu
they likely wouldn't have killed him. they probably would've just fucked him up. they actually like to collect money from people and you can't do that with a corpse
"He calls... AND he also raises"
This is more fun to watch than today's poker tournaments. I like the cards and chips being used here!
HISTORICAL FOOTAGE
Thanks for posting..Who's the redhead that kissed Stu? ...it is ridiculous that they played this tournament with 500 and 1000 chips as the biggest in play...they spent more time counting and moving chips back and forth than they did playing cards....
Probably his soon-to-be wife, Madeleine Wheeler
Well, there weren't many poker tournaments before this. They were still learning.
@ I didn't think Madelaine was a redhead...she had dark/black hair no?
@ Well, true, but they could have substituted in any number of chips for larger denoms......roulette chips, Pan chips, etc. once they saw it was being an issue.....which SHOULD have been 5 years earlier..........
@@CowSaysMooMoo It was still an issue when Greg Raymer won. You ever seen his heads up match with David whatshisname?
Priceless footage of Stuey...RIP brother...
In all of Stuey's final table appearances he ran godlike... Bill Smith misreading his hand, catching Stuey's bluff and Stuey sucks out... Perry catching an Ace vs Stuey's KK and Stuey hitting the K on the turn... Stuey's JJ hitting a set vs QQ...
Stu was already thinking how much coke he can buy and then go lose the rest betting on the horses!
Bobby Baldwin was taken out twice in Main Event Final Tables pushing all in with trip 99's as nuts vs QQ and twice his opponent hit a Queen on the river...
Baldwin should have had a few more bracelets
Stu Unger story is pretty amazing... the drugs finally got him in the end sadly.
RIP Unger (Mike Sexton was good friends with him RIP)
Crazy thing was Stu would take his poker winnings and blow it all on the horses
"He plays with the Eskimos up there in Alaska"
Thank you commentators I won and lost my AE 86 like it's here and gone like these magic show, this game really can make and break somebody's day. Let's just play like this game for fun without someone dying ps I'm sure Santa says wish kinda granted
What in the actual fuck does this mean? Are you high?
In 1981 apparently they had never considered a 10k chip.
Bobby Baldwin with the string bet
This is poker history.
The one I’m trying to find is the 1980 World Series. I know it exists, but I’ve never seen the video. Been looking for that one for years. Even asked Stefanie Ungar about it. It’s like it disappeared.
@@Cornmolio This footage is lost and has not been recovered.
@@brandonnel4687Where did you hear this from? I believe it exists. Surely there at least has to be a VHS somewhere. But I’ve also seen various clips from it.
@@Cornmolio Many places the footage is lost im very sure of it many tried to recover it but all has failed to do so.The VHS is all lost.I understand that you saw some clips of it but that is what was found.
Legend.. Best ever
$375,000 for the winner is roughly 1.3 million today (2025)
I love the old days where you could smoke at the table
I wish his 80 run was online
47:58 there's a book called "One of a Kind" about Stu Ungar, and they tell a story specifically about this hand, and how a simple comment someone in the audience made that completely changed the way this hand was played & probably altered the course of poker history & Stu Ungar's life dramatically. Butterfly effect in full effect.
75 entrants!?!? Crazy to see how it has changed.
I thought we didn't know their hole cards until later. Why are we seeing them here???? Amazing. Do we only see them in the edited show???
I love how they call the chips in dollars as if they’re actually worth money😂
goes to show, even back then you have to get lucky multiple times to win a tournament .... when stu had the K5 of spades to make his flush vs the 7/6, he had 30% equity to win against the bigger turned pair.. and when he had the AQ vs Ak on the A33A board for a chop.... AQ vs. stu's KK ... Ace on the flop, King on the turn... LoL some guying crazy with 10/2 of clubs for his friend and doesn't improve... same ridiculous play.. fool also calls clock on Unger..
He won the next one after he got older also by drawing out on a better ace. His opponent made a great call. It was played on fremont street
Puggy, Slim, and Doyle were the three musketeers back in the day. According to Puggy, each had their own focus. Slim wanted to get laid, Puggy wanted to drink, and Doyle wanted to play poker.
Legend has it that they also comprised the all time worst human centipede. Poor Doyle was in the back
@@joshfoster6189 Yikes.
Doyle blew a lot of money on sports betting and wagering on the golf course.
So cool!
AWESOME video!!! "The Kid"..I had his biography.. Great read...(Can't remember the title..) And poker wasn't even his best game!!! GIN was !!! Many poker/gin pros are on record saying he was THE BEST. Is actually how he got his 💰💰💰nut to get into Poker. Died broke in a sleazy hotel. Alone... But when he was alive...he was ALIVE!!! R.I.P. Stu.... you were LEGENDARY!!!
It's really a shame he didn't live long enough to enjoy the poker boom in the 2000s. Stu woulda been an ever bigger GOD of the game!!!!!
One of a Kind by Nollan Dalla
@@deathbymonkeys
Nolan Dalla
These guys aren't playing optimally
Bro s crushing live sngs live 147 years bedore PS...
😏🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very interesting how aggressive they played single pairs and draws back in the day. Lots of string betting though
back when you were alloweed to smoke cigrits
buenisimo
Bobby Baldwin took a break from touring as the front man of the band R.E.M. to play this tournament.
It is so weird watching poker from the 1970s and 1980s, feels like a different surreal world, but it looks pretty cool except for the cigarette smoke! It must have been tough for non smoking players since they allowed smoking there. Also, notice how the announcers describe the game in the much simpler different way than today, like when they say he calls and then raises! They didn't have the right terminology down yet.
It wasn't tough at all actually. You either smoked or were used to people smoking around you, and nobody thought to care about it.
This production is still better than PokerGo💩
They needed big blind ante and a color up so bad
Какие стремные стрижки, особенно у турнирного директора на 38-39 минуте, просто жесть 😂😂😂
Heads up... Stuey was 26 years old and Perry Green was 33 years old.
I would’ve said Perry was 50
Perry Green was born 3-17-36. He was 45.
"We had 75 original entries...." LOL, wow.
Bill Smith 100% misread his hand!
Doyle had back taxes to pay and Puggie's wife did not approve of gambling. So they decided that Amarillo Slim would win that year!
Playing the Main Event final table with stacks of 100 chips.
doyle was quite a handsome fella in his day
@1:39 dude looks like Artie Ziff
Yes,Stu was not a good player ,he was a great player.To win the 1981 WSOP main he got lucky alot by winning the flips with 55, hitting his flush on the river with K5 of spades,hitting a fullhouse with AQ against perry Greens AK fullhouse splitting the pot and Perry missing draws like theres he has zero luck .Stu Ungar got so lucky to win back to back and always was on the right side of the flop against Perry and got no bad beats.Lesson is aggressive players make alot of money when they don't miss😅
You can't hear the players talk, but looks like a lot of string raising going on lol.
Why Am I watching this in 2025?
Now these would all be called string bets and not allowed
34:13 "they got a tie pot, and they don't know it" pretty sure with the way the hand played out AA 3 3... Its very likely they have the same hand.
Who is the announcer??? He looks like the great Curt Gowdy... but sounds like Brent Muskberger... Whatever. This is a HISTORIC video. Gotta give a 👍 to RUclips algorithm that suggested this. In the middle of me watching Aerosmith and Stones concert vids...
i'm pleased the vid was suggested also :)
It is Curt Gowdy.
“Little stu ungar”? 😂😂😂
Does anyone have 1980 final table
i have quite a bit old poker to upload, but not 1980 i'm sorry
Took for ever to count those chips
How was Perry Green only 45 y.o. here? Looks every bit of 55 at least.
Poker's Keith Richards.
today 4000 or more buy in each year
Thanks pigskin !!! 🐷
I don't know how Sam Moon made it to 15th place, that was terrible play.
String bet city lol
the real winners of the wsop that year were the coke dealers in vegas...rip stu
So is Perry from Alaska?
I think. maybe. They said where he's from once or twice, but I think I might need them to say a few more times before it sticks with me...
look how people are dress...tragic end for Stu
if he stll alive he could be beat IVY.,Daniel.,Helmuth.. easy
Ivey was too far, but ya of course the rest :p
very true he was the best
Just couldn’t lay the drugs down. What a waste of talent. RIP Stu.
he'd be a fish today with his skill level back then
that being said it's likely he'd have the right mind for learning the modern game and do quite well once he learned it, but who knows
the other pros you mentioned have done just that and adjusted their game to remain at the top today, had they not done that they'd also be fish
@@Neurotik51 yeah man and larry bird wouldn't do well in the NBA right now.. who cares? why does this comment hold any value? It only matters how they did during the time they actually existed..
Would love to see the dealers hands, so obviously stacked the deck for a certain someone 😮
What?
He needs a good wash. Looks like a Trump supporter.
Trump is going to bring our country back to normal.