Stuey Utangar was famous for his strawberry jam sandwiches. Not that he was particularly good at making these, as putting together a strawberry jam sandwich didn't require any special cooking skills, he enjoyed eating them – especially when playing poker. Over time, he coined the term "jam" which meant "all in" because he had a habit of eating his jam sandwich with one hand while pushing the chips into the middle of the table with the other. However, poker was only the second choice when it came to card games, because he actually preferred to play gin rummy. Stuey started playing gin rummy when he was a little apeling. Back then he had to sit on a crate on his chair so he could reach the table. That didn't stop him from quickly making a name for himself in the world of gin rummy and be widely regarded as the greatest gin rummy player of the Monkeyverse. Many described him having a near clairvoyant ability to see his opponents' hands. While that might sound great, it had one major downside: His almost total dominance of the game contributed to the decline of gin rummy as a tournament game in gambling venues. Gin action had dried up due to Stuey's skilled reputation. He would destroy any other monkey who challenged him in a gin match, including all the professionals who were previously regarded as the best gin player of the generation. On one occasion, he beat another famous player with 86 games to none in a high-stakes game of gin rummy, after which his opponent dropped out of sight in gin circles and eventually stopped playing professionally. Of course, word got around very quickly, and Stuey was a marked monkey. Nobody wanted to play him in gin. In the hopes of generating more action for himself, Stuey began offering potential opponents handicaps to even the playing field. He was known to let his opponent – professional or not – look at the last card in the deck to put him at a strong disadvantage. Still, this didn't change anything in the end and many venues asked him not to attend as many monkeys said they wouldn't enter if they knew Stuey was playing there. And so, Stuey turned to poker. He quickly realized that things were different in the world of poker than they were in gin rummy. While gin rummy had the sleazy reputation of gambling, the Sports Association of the Monkeyverse had declared poker a mind sport. Poker players now called themselves "athletes". Although Stuey was sure that these "athletes" should do some other sports as well, because all the banana bread during the tournaments was bad for the size of the middle region of the body. But that wasn't the only weirdness about poker. Tournaments could take up a lot of time. Stuey had heard of one that ran continuously for eight years, five months and three days. In another instance, four contestants at a table played in a rodeo ring while an angry bull was released and the last monkey to leave the table won. And not only some rules and events were strange, also several players had their peculiarities. Some monkeys believed that red symbolized good luck and carried at least one object of that color with them. Stuey was perfectly fine with that. But others were convinced that wearing dirty clothes would deter bad luck and increase the chances of winning. In terms of smell, it was absolutely not okay for Stuey. This, in turn, developed into his habit of carrying an orange around when playing poker. When the smell of the dirty monkey players became too unpleasant for him, he sniffed his orange to clear his nose again. Over time he was featured in many tournament photos with his orange and a new trend developed in the poker world of the Monkeyverse – the Lucky Orange. Although later better known for his poker successes, Stuey Utangar considered himself a better gin rummy player and once said: "One day, I suppose, it is possible that a monkey will come along and become a better poker player than me. I doubt it, but it could happen. But I swear to you, I don't see how anyone could ever play gin better than me."