High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story


 Released just a few months before Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker main event, this movie – titled ‘Stuey’ and ‘High Roller’ in some countries – came out a little too soon to cash-in on the poker boom of the mid-2000s.


Despite a low budget and written and directed by A.W. Vidmer, who has no other film credits on his resume, this is a well-crafted biographical movie portraying, in its entirety, the life Stu Ungar, the only three-time Wold Series of Poker winner.


No high-octane thriller, the film chronicles the descent of an intelligent young man with great promise, who becomes addicted to drugs and gambling funds those habits by his phenomenal poker playing skills. As devastating as it is entertaining, for many High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story will be something of an undiscovered gem.

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