Doyle Brunson The Living Poker Legend

Doyle Brunson (born August 10, 1933) has played poker professionally for more than 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker Main Event champion, has ten World Series of Poker bracelets and over $5 million in career tournament winnings. Although he’s in his late 70’s, he is still one of the most feared opponents in high stakes cash games. Despite his many poker accomplishments which also include an induction into the Poker Hall of Fame, his greatest contributions to poker came off the felt as an author.

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In 1979 Doyle Brunson published a book called Doyle Brunson’s Super System: a Course in Power Poker. The book is simply called Super System for short, sometimes with a slash (Super/System), and is the most famous poker book ever written. Even though the book was written more than 30 years ago, the strategies contained within are still relevant today. Many of today’s top professional swear by Super Systems and partially credit its contents for their success. In 2004, Doyle Brunson released a sequel to this book which included contributions from many top professionals and covered topics such as internet poker, television poker, and games that didn’t exist when the original Super System was first written.

Other books written by Doyle Brunson include:

* Poker Wisdom of a Champion, 2003 (formerly titled According to Doyle when published in 1984)

* Online Poker: Your Guide to Playing Online Poker Safely & Winning Money, 2005

* My 50 Most Memorable Hands, 2007

* According to Doyle, 2007

* The Godfather of Poker, 2009

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Texas Dolly Nickname

Doyle Brunson was given the nickname Texas Dolly when Jimmy Snyder was instructed to announce him as “Texas Doyle,” but incorrectly pronounced it “Texas Dolly”. The name stuck and many of Brunson’s poker friends now refer to him simply as Texas Dolly.

Doyle Brunson Poker Hand

Doyle Brunson won both the 1976 and 1977 World Series of Poker Main Event holding ten deuce. As a result, holding two hole cards of 10-2 has become a poker hand named after him called Doyle Brunson 10 2. When Brunson is at the table many players attempt to play this hand and will often flash to the table with a smile when they’re successful in winning a pot while holding it.

Doyle Brunson Online Poker

In 2004, the online poker site Doyles Room launched with Doyle Brunson as their spokesperson and poker room manager. This site quickly grew to be one of the largest in the industry, and today it is the exclusive online poker home of Doyle Brunson. If you want to take a chance at poker against the living legend of Poker Doyle Brunson, you can find him playing online at DoylesRoom.ag under the name TEX_DOLLY.

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Doyle Brunson Poker

For more information on Doyle Brunson’s poker career, see our page: Doyle Brunson Poker. We’ll now conclude this article by back tracking to Doyle Brunson early life, and family life.

Doyle Brunson Early Life

Doyle Brunson is the eldest of three children born to his parents in a small Fisher County, Texas town called Longworth. This town had a population of only 100, and a young adventurous Doyle Brunson often ran to neighboring towns. This paved the way for his athletic career where he was part of the All-State Texas basketball team, and in 1950 he won a Texas Interscholastic Track Meet with the one-mile time of 4:43. Brunson had many offers from big name NCAA schools for basketball scholarships, but he chose to attend a college close to his home, Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.

Doyle Brunson was in talk with the Minneapolis Lakers where he could have begun a career as a professional basketball player, but during a summer job unloading sheetrock, a ton of weight shifted and landed on his leg, breaking it in two places. This was the end of Brunson’s athletic career and his hopes of becoming a professional basketball player.

During the two years that Brunson’s leg was in a cast, he shifted his focus to education and went on to obtain a masters degree in administrative education. He eventually got a job as a salesman, and during his free time, he played five-card draw poker as a hobby. The more Doyle played poker, the more he liked it, and after playing 7-Card Stud for the first time and winning over a month’s salary in under three hours, he quit his job and dedicated himself to playing poker professionally.

Of course, back then these games were illegal, players were frequently robbed, and most poker players needed to carry guns. Doyle Brunson tells lots of great stories in his books about his days as a Texas road gambler. This information is certainly worth a read, or you might learn more about these days in videos at youtube.com or other video sharing sites.

Doyle Brunson Family Life

Doyle Brunson met his future wife, Louise, in 1960. He initially told her he was a bookie, which she mistakenly thought was an accountant. She later learned her boyfriend was a road gambler, but by that time she was already deeply in love with him, and they married in August 1962.

While Louise was pregnant with their first child, Doyle Brunson got some devastating news that a tumor in his neck was incurable cancer. Doctors suggested that with surgery Doyle might be able to live long enough to see the child’s birth, so he went ahead with the surgery. In what Doyle Brunson describes as a true Christian Miracle, when the surgery was complete, no signs of cancer were found in his body. A similar situation happened to Louise when she went in for surgery on a tumor only to find it had also miraculously disappeared.

The Brunson family’s luck with dodging untimely death sadly ran out, however, with their daughter Doyla’s death at age 18 when she took too much potassium for a heart-valve condition. Over the following year, the grieving Doyle Brunson read Christian literature and converted to Christianity.

Doyle Brunson’s son Todd Brunson followed in his father’s footsteps as a professional poker player and won a WSOP bracelet in the 2005 World Series of Poker Omaha Hi-Lo event. His daughter Pamela plays a little poker and managed to outlast both her father and brother at both the 2007 World Series of Poker and 2009 World Series of Poker main events.

If you’re interested in learning more about Doyle Brunson, he hosts a great blog at his online poker website www.doylesroom.ag.