Poker Players: Player Interviews

Doyle Brunson

He's The Granddaddy Now

Doyle Brunson - an unlikely Essex boy

With ten WSOP bracelets and a hand named after him, there’s only one granddaddy of poker, step forward Doyle Brunson

Q;What’s your game? A:Texas Hold’em is probably my favourite [Brunson won the WSOP Hold’em Main Event in 1977 and ’78] but it’s close – I like Lowball too. It’s an old Southern game we used to play when I was young. It’s got a lot of intrigue to it but it’s not as complex as Hold’em. It’s actually a simple game, but hard to master.

Stakes?

My ordinary stakes are $4000 and $8000 limit. We play no-limit Hold’em, no-limit Lowball, pot-limit Omaha and a mix of other games. We play at the Bellagio mostly. There’s a nucleus of pros and then there’s guys that come into town wanting to play higher than we normally do.

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