Poker Player - Doyle Brunson
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Doyle Brunson was born in Longworth, Texas on August 10th, 1933. During his high school career, Doyle played Baseball, Basketball and also run track, despite his capability in various athletic activities Doyle was chosen as one of the top five Basketball players in the state of Texas, so offers poured in from a number of colleges, he finally decided on Hardin-Simmons. There was great interest in Doyle's Basketball skills especially from the NBA Lakers (then known as the Minneapolis Lakers), until Doyle had an accident and snapped his knee in two places while he was working. When Doyle graduated from college with a Masters Degree in Administrative Education he tried to make a career from this but never managed to make a good living so he decided he would hang up his court shoes and instead play poker to feed his competitive nature, he found himself going from one poker table to the next. During his early poker days Doyle met many now famous names, in the 1960's Doyle married his childhood sweetheart Louise they had four children together. Later the family moved to Las Vegas as Doyle found that invitations to poker games were scares in Texas as he had already won at nearly all the top prize poker games.
Doyle's achievements span over five decades, he has been given the name 'Texas Dolly' and is one of the most accomplished players in poker today. Once he had firmly established himself in Las Vegas he went on to compete in the World Series of Poker and won in both 1976 and 1977, winning in both games with a full house, the Hold'em hand that he has won with twice (tens full of deuces) has been given the nickname the 'Doyle Doyle'.
Doyle holds ten World Series of Poker bracelets from various different categories including the 1976 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship winning 1st place earning $220,000, the 1977 $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship coming 1st place earning $340,000, the 1977 $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw earning $80,250, the 1977 $1,000 Seven-Card Stud Split earning $62,500, the 1978 $5,000 Seven-Card Stud winning $68,000, the 1979 $600 Mixed Doubles (with Starla Brodie) earning $4,500, the 1991 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em winning $208,000, the 1998 $1,500 Seven-Card Razz winning $93,00, the 2003 $2,000 H.O.R.S.E. earning $84,080. Doyle also proved that age is no factor in poker when he won the 2004 Legends of Poker World, Poker Tour Event collecting $1,198,290 in what was the biggest World Poker Tour field at the time, he also won the 2005 $5,000 No Limit Shorthanded Texas Hold'em (6 players per table) earning $367,800. Doyle has also been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, the Seniors Poker Hall of Fame, the Casino Legends Hall of Fame, along with Gus Hansen and James Garner, Doyle was the first of three players to be inducted on the World Poker Tour, Poker Walk of Fame.
Doyle has also written a book, over twenty-five years ago, called Super Systems and also has another book called 'According to Doyle' which is made up from a collection of some of the columns that he once wrote for the old Gambling Times Magazine, he has also opened an on-line gambling poker room called 'Doyle's Room'.
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