Doyle Brunson: Profile

Doyle Brunson was born in Longworth, Texas in 1933. He played baseball and ran for his school, but at basketball he really starred. He even played for the NBA’s Lakers. But his sporting career would come to an abrupt end before it really began when an accident at work severely damaged his knee.

Brunson had begun playing poker before his injury but started to play more often after his injury and he started to gain some big winnings quite soon. After graduating, he worked as a business machines salesman but, on his first day, he was invited to play in a poker  game and earned over a month’s salary . Later heleft the company and became a professional poker player.

Brunson has been playing poker over 50 years and has won a lot of prizes. Brunson is also the first player ever to earn $1 million in poker tournaments and has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets . He won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker multiple times, which he did in 1976 and 1977. Doyle Brunson nickname is “Texas Dolly”. Brunson has the honor of having a Texas hold’em hand named after him. This is the T2 of any suit, as he won the World Series of Poker two years in a row with them (1976 and 1977), both with a full house. 

Other than his poker success, his greatest achievement is probably a book he wrote called  Super/System, which probably is regarded one of most authoritative books about poker. Originally self-published in 1978, Super/System was the book that transformed poker by giving ordinary players an insight into the way that professionals such as Brunson played and won.

We don’t stop playing because we get old, we get old because we stop playing.

hehe lovely :p