Famous Poker players
Doyle Brunson
Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson is originally from Longworth, Texas and he is an American poker player who has played professionally for over 40 years. He is a former poker world champion and the author of several poker books.
The first player to earn $1 million in poker tournaments, Brunson has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan for the record. He is also one of only four players to have won consecutive main events at the World Series of Poker, in 1976 and 1977.
After graduating, he took a job as a business machines salesman, but on his first day in the job he was invited to play in a seven-card stud game and earned over a month's salary in less than three hours. He soon left the company and began a career as a professional poker player.
Doyle, at the ripe young age of 72, continues to play at the elite level. Where most poker players’ skills usually deteriorate with age and time, Brunson is sharper than ever still eliminating the competition day in and day out. In 2005, he won both his record 10th WSOP bracelet and hundreds of thousands more in tournament play.
He is a spokesperson for the new online poker website DoylesRoom.com, and writes a syndicated poker column in the London Telegraph. He plays poker every day and often hosts high-stakes Texas Hold'em games that cost $100,000 just to sit down. He'll win, and sometimes lose, $50,000 or more on a single hand.
Most recently, in January 2006, ahead of ESPN, the World Poker Tour, and the rest of the world, BLUFF magazine voted Brunson the #1 most influential force in the world of poker. Despite all these comings and goings, Doyle shows no signs of slowing down. He still has the eye, the nerve and the skill and just in the fall of 2004, won another million-dollar World Poker Tour event at the Bicycle Club in Los Angeles, California.
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