Popular poker player Doyle Brunson has recently undergone dental surgery, which has led to the announcement that he is to take some time out from the tables. The ten-time World Series of Poker winner had a total of five and a half hours worth of surgery on his teeth and gums.
Brunson was due to play the PartyPoker Premier League event, as well as a televised PokerStars tournament, the NBC Heads Up Championship and the World Poker Tour event at LA’s Commerce Casino in the coming weeks, but his recovery from surgery, coupled with fatigue from a recent trip to London for the Affiliate Conference 2010, has led to the decision to take a breather. At present, it seems like he’ll be out of action until May, but his well publicised $150,000 win on a Superbowl bet should help to ease any pain in the meantime.
He commented on his blog at DoylesRoom.com that his recent travelling has left him feeling “like a truck has run over me”, adding “there is no use playing unless you are at your best” and that his “gut feeling is [to] just chill out until the WSoP” – wise words, considering the tough standard of those scheduled events.
A winner of almost $6 million in tournament prize money so far in his career, Doyle Brunson was the first player to reach the $1 million mark and is arguably the most influential person in poker history. His many books, including the legendary “Super System: A Course In Power Poker” opened up the winning techniques of the professional poker player to the gambler in the street.
Born in Longworth, Texas back in 1933, Brunson was once a promising basketball player, before a double leg break ended his career. It was this injury that led to an increase in his card playing, initially five card draw and the rest is history. He still occasionally relies on a crutch to get around, due to the injury.
Doyle Brunson continues to play in the highest stakes events around the world at the ripe old age of 76. He claims in his book “My Fifty Most Memorable Hands” that he has seen three players die at the poker table, so it is probably for the best that he take a little rest from time to time, after all, he posed the question on his blog: “Could it be my age is finally catching up to me?”
Long live the “Godfather of Poker”.
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