Profile on Doyle Brunson
Posted on April 22, 2008
Filed Under Pocker
Doyle ‘Texas Dolly’ Brunson was born on the 10th of August 1933 and didnt always harbour ambitions of becoming a poker superstar, he was a keen basketball player through college but a badly broken leg unfortunately ended these aspirations. And so it was that Doyle started putting more time and energy into playing poker, with a natural gift for the game he soon began to develop his reading abilities and all round game to a level where he was regularly cleaning up at all the local games. After several years of roaming from town to town with his friends to win cash at poker, he inevitably found himself in Las Vegas where he could play with the best players around. Eventually, some years later, he went on to win back to back WSOP main event titles in 1976 and 1977 and Amazingly, won both of these tournaments with (10,2) in the hole on the final hand, making a full house both times.
His nickname ‘Dolly’ came about by chance when an announcer misread the name Doyle, and he has been known across the poker tournaments as ‘Dolly’ to this day. As well as being perhaps the greatest poker player that has ever lived he is also an accomplished writer on the subject and has several books published, the most famous of which was, Super/System and as he once said, divulges so much strategy that it has probably cost him money rather than making him any. Despite this he remains at the age of 75, one of the most successful poker players in the world today with estimated live tournament earnings of around $5.3 million, and will be looking to increase his WSOP bracelet haul to a record equalling 11 when the World Series begins this year.
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