LOL. You should have introduced yourself. I watched the final table of one WSOP while it was held in the back of Binion's. Couldn't really tell what was going on but watched it anyway. Also watched a bit of the second Ungar title head-to-head held outside of Binion's in the tent. By that time, Ungar's nose was falling off, which is why he wore the shades, really, but everyone knew who he was.

I have not read one single account anywhere that even suggested Ungar lost overall playing poker. Considering how little money was involved and how few tournaments there were in those days, I sincerely doubt that Ungar lost money playing live poker. He lost a fortune betting sports, which everyone knew and even he admitted, and which has been written about in multiple books.

McManus, the author of Positively Fifth Street and a final table participant with Ungar the year he wrote it, did not like Ungar at all. Thought he was a bad look for poker and resembled (if I remember the quote correctly) "an emaciated praying mantis in his chair." He did not mean that as a compliment. But McManus never suggested that Ungar lost money playing live games. In fact, he passed along some stories of how lethal Ungar's eyesight was, pulling a KewlJ in a way. Ungar attended to action at adjacent tables to such a degree that some pros would occasionally ask him, from a table away, if they had made the right move in a cash game.

I likely spent more time in Binion's than you did, mickey, and knew the folks staying there, because many people staying there were camped at the behest of families scattered around the country so they could make the appropriate lay-offs of sports betting money when requested. That's why Binion's had, at the time, arguably the highest sports betting volume in the city until the Mirage opened. Their sports betting limits were as high as any book, at least as posted. And they undoubtedly had higher "un-posted" arrangements with some people.