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Doyle Brunson Biography

February 10, 2009

Quick Facts

  • Doyle Brunson was born in Longworth, Texas, USA.
  • Doyle currently resides in gambling central Las Vegas, USA.
  • You can find Doyle online in his own online poker room Doyle’s Room.

Career Highlights

  • WSOP NL Holdem Six-Hand 2005 – 1st
  • WSOP H.O.R.S.E. 2003 – 1st
  • WSOP NL Holdem 1991 – 1st
  • WSOP NL Holdem 1976 – 1st

Doyle Brunson is by far the most established and recognized poker player in the world. Everyone who plays or watches poker knows exactly who Doyle Brunson is and can even put a face with the name. Doyle who was born in 1933 in Texas was once expected to become a basketball star, but a knee injury made him turn to poker. Doyle learned to play poker as a young child, but didn’t start taking it serious until he suffered a knee injury at work, which ended his college basketball career. He was once in the top five basketball players in Texas and would have surely made it to the NBA. Looks like the knee injury was a blessing from above though as he’s had plenty of success at the poker table. Doyle has four children with his wife and sadly one passed away when only a tender age of nineteen.

Brunson has been playing poker longer then anyone out there and has the most WSOP Bracelets along with Chan. Once Doyle was finished with his master degree he started travelling the country attending all of the poker tournaments that he possibly could. On top of having 10 WSOP Bracelets, Doyle also has the record for being the first poker player to win over $1,000,000 in one tournament.

You can find Doyle playing high stake NL Texas Holdem games either live or online in his poker room. He is one of the only poker players who have a poker room of their own and it’s definitely a wide choice for someone with such a branded name. Everyone knows of Doyle which makes his poker room an attraction for many online poker players. If you’re looking to meet Doyle then your best bet would be in his online poker room.

Doyle apart from being a poker legend at the tables is also a well known poker author and almost every poker player has read at least one of Doyle’s books. His most popular book that has been widely read by poker players is his book titled “Super System” which happens to be one of the best poker books of all time. Being written by someone with as much experience as Doyle you can bet that it’s worth the price and that you’ll benefit from reading the book.

There is no poker player with as much experience as Doyle and as much fame as Doyle and I doubt one will come along. There are some young players such as Phil Ivey that are becoming larger then life in the poker world, but noone can compare to Doyle yet. Maybe in a couple more decades we’ll have someone more experienced and established as Doyle Brunson is right now, but we’ll have to wait and see until then Doyle is the king of poker.

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