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Doyle Brunson

Doyle Brunson

Name: Doyle Brunson
Date of birth: 10 August 1933
Place of birth: Longworth, Fisher County, Texas
Awards: Member of the Poker Hall of Fame, 10 WSOP bracelets, 2 World Championship titles, a WPT title
Nickname: Dolly Poker, Texas Dolly



How to summarize the life of one of the greatest poker players worldwide in a few lines? Doyle Brunson has enjoyed poker, well before the majority of current players not only know the existence of this game

Doyle Brunson has almost become a professional basketball but ultimately a knee injury has changed his destiny by finally dismissing grounds basket. It then delves into more serious poker played well there before. Legend has it that after a master obient it his first job and that his first day of work he was invited to play a round of seven-stud and earns more than a month's salary in less than 3 hours. He then decides to leave his job and become a professional poker player

Doyle Brunson traveled around the states with his companions and brothers in arms, Amarillo Slim and Sailor Roberts. They live with the same bankroll and share everything. They will face organized crime, which is often the poker parties, will face gun several times, will be beaten and robbed several times. This is a far cry from many online poker warm in his living room!

In 1978 wrote the book Brunson poker is still the reference material: Super System I with the help of the greatest champions of the era including the late Chip Reese. This book offers the first amateur players to understand the reasoning of the professional poker players.



It should be noted that almost 80 years, Doyle Brunson is one of the only active players and appears to have retained all his faculties intact to be always one of the most feared players whether in tournaments or cash game

Finally, Doyle Brunson has the online poker room Doyles Room, room accepting U.S. players before and on the Tribeca network before being acquired by ipoker




His achievements in detail


WSOP



Doyle Brunson is present at the World Series of Poker since their origin, and has won ten titles WSOP placing it just behind Phil Hellmuth and tied with Johnny Chan. But it should be noted that Doyle Brunson has managed the admirable performance to win two titles of world champions in a row of the WSOP Main Event and the bracelets were awarded in a large number of different variants stressing Doyle Brunson is a complete player

1976 $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship $ 230,000
1977 $ 5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw $ 80,250
1977 $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship $ 340,000
1977 $ 1,000 Seven-Card Stud Split $ 62,500
1978 $ 5,000 Seven-Card Stud $ 68.000
1979 $ 600 Mixed Doubles (with Starla Brodie) $ 4,500
1991 $ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em $ 208,000
1998 $ 1,500 Seven-Card Razz $ 93,000
2003 $ 2.000 H.O.R.S.E $ 84,080
2005 $ 5,000 No Limit Shorthanded Texas Hold'em $ 367.800

It is likely that Doyle Brunson will never record for WSOP bracelets because Phil Helmuth has the advantage of age and should still engrager few bracelets before the end of his career

WPT



Doyle Brunson has made 3 final tables for the WPT one of them ended with a victory at bicyle Casino Legends Of Poker during Season III, winning a new title and $ 1,198,290.
Season I WPT World Championship 4th for $ 159.987
Season III The Bicycle Casino Legends Of Poker 1st for $ 1,198,290
Season IV Five Diamonds World Poker Classic 3rd for $ 563.495

Other performances



Doyle Brunson has appeared in almost all important events on television. It was particularly witnessed in Poker After Dark, or in almost every season of High Stakes Poker, splashing in her class all cash game tables.

It should be noted that Doyle Brunson is primarily a cash game player and that despite his most impressive performances of his earnings is unknown and comes from long hours spent at poker tables in the United States and the Big Game at Bellagio confronting the world's best players every day