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Doyle Brunson is indeed a legend of poker. As one of poker enthusiasts first to achieve a great potential of the game, professional poker has always been leading an ardent supporter of poker. Nicknamed "Texas Dolly" Brunson is the first player in the world to make $ 1,000,000 in live tournament. It is also one of only four poker players to win the World Series of Poker Main Event twice (1976 and 1977). Despite his age honorable 74-year Brunson is still very active on the poker circuit. It was once reported as saying he would retire when he stopped winning.

According onlinepokereport , Brunson was born in Longworth, Texas. Because of very small size of the city, as a child, Brunson frequently ran long distances in neighboring cities. Running all day, as soon makes him a promising athlete. He was a member of the team All-State Texas basketball. Although he received many tempting offers a wide selection of colleges, he chose to attend the closest to his hometown, Harden-Simmons University in Abilene. The Minneapolis Lakers Brunson invited to join them, but he suffered a knee injury at his summer job and thus his basketball career ended before it really began. Finally, Brunson decided to get an MBA education administration.

Brunson began playing poker even before he was injured. He mainly played 5-Card Draw and was quite successful at it. After graduation from college, he found a job as a salesman of office equipment, but soon resigned. On his first day at work, he has been invited to a friendly game of 7-Card Stud and landed on a month's salary in under three hours. Realizing that poker is a much more profitable business, he decided to develop a career in poker.

In 1960, Brunson met Louise, the woman who became his wife. Shortly after their marriage, Louise is pregnant and the couple has never been so happy. However, their happiness did not last very long as the doctors discovered a tumor in the neck deadly Brunson. It was announced that Brunson had cancer and that it was incurable. Brunson asked surgeons to prolong his life when he would be able to see her child as soon-to-be-born. Miraculously, after the operation, the tumor was gone. Louise gave birth to four children. The youngest, Todd, followed in the footsteps of his father and became a poker pro as well.

Brunson poker career was launched at a time when poker was illegal. However, Brunson continued to play with a friend of his, Dwayne Hamilton. Finally, they began to travel throughout Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma in search of richer games. On one of these trips involved, they met fellow poker pros Amarillo Slim and Sailor Roberts. Tired of playing poker illegal (with all the consequences), Brunson has decided to move to a place where poker is legal, namely Las Vegas.

In 1976 and 1977, Brunson grabbed World Series of Poker win the title twice in a row. Surprisingly, his pocket during the two events final table was 10-2. From there, the hand independently of the map "function has been nicknamed" Doyle Brunson. "Because he has won two league matches with dozens of full deuces.

In addition to being a poker player, Brunson is also an author of poker foreground. His book, "Super System", which was published in 1978, is one of the greatest achievements Brunson. Super / System was proven to be published very famous from the beginning. This is probably because he has an average poker players a complete overview of the gaming world of professional poker for the first time. In 2004, "Super System 2", an updated version o.