Thanksgiving Day Doyle Brunson Style
Gambling911.com is celebrating Thanksgiving Day by celebrating The Godfather of Poker, Doyle Brunson. How fitting! Doyle first broke bread with the pilgrims way back when while in a few weeks we will celebrate the birth of Christ, which, contrary to popular myth, took place before the birth of Brunson.
His new book is out now and can be purchased here for UNDER $20. Our own Jenny Woo is mentioned in the book.
This is the story of Doyle Brunson, an American treasure and the greatest poker player of all time, is one for the ages. It's a story of guts and glory, of good luck and bad, of triumph and unspeakable tragedy, of courage and grace. He has survived whippings, gun fights, stabbings, mobsters (the real-life ones portrayed in the movie Casino), murderers, and a death sentence when, riddled with incurable cancer, he was given months to live by doctors who told him his hand was played out. Apparently, fate had never played poker with Brunson-he lived. Of a group of 32 men he played poker with in the tough alleys of Texas, just he and one other survived the treacherous perils of that life. A master of the bluff, his most outrageous bluff came after being pistol-whipped and told he's going to die with a gunman pointing a pistol at his forehead. Again, he lived. He's gambled for millions of dollars-and with his life against the real-life mobsters and killers made famous in the movie Casino-and was the biggest sports bettor in the world with a reputation of betting enormous sums of money on just about anything. Doyle has not only made more money at golf than anyone else until Tiger Woods came along, he once bet one million dollars on a single hole-that, when he was virtually wheelchair-bound and could barely stand. He's been hard-up flat broke more times than he's got fingers and has won millions of dollars just as many times. Brunson has seen it all: from the athletic dreams and a leg shattered by a freak injury which waylaid his path to the NBA (he was drafted by the Lakers), to the devastating death of his first-born daughter, to outrageous exploits like trying to discover Noah's Ark and raise the Titanic. Doyle's rollercoaster of a life defines the saying: Truth is stranger than fiction.
Twice a winner of the prestigious World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he's won millions and lost millions-sometimes in seconds-but decidedly more of the former than the latter. Brunson can still be found playing in the highest stakes poker games in the world, often with as much as one million dollars in front of him. To every one of the 250 million people worldwide who play poker each year, Doyle Brunson, is the legendary "Babe Ruth of Poker"-the greatest gambler and poker player who has ever lived.
You will not be able to put this book down.
Doyle Brunson has been celebrating Thanksgiving with some great big cash money Bounty Hunter tournaments at his online poker room DoylesRoom.com. The main tournament was Wednesday night before Thanksgiving but obviously play online goes throughout the day on Thanksgiving and Doyle has said he might be making a few appearances in between turkey dinner.
He led up to the holiday by doing the interview circuit and, everywhere he goes he's asked the same question: What do you think of Joan Rivers?
And let's give it up for Doyle! This holiday week alone he had 12 skin cancers removed, got dental implants and a colonoscopy, all without flinching an eyebrow...or anything else for that matter.
So Gambling911.com is very happy to celebrate the life of Doyle Brunson!
Ace King, Gambling911.com
