POKER INFO - PROILE - Doyle Brunson

way past his prime.

brunson is awesome! hes way better than u, and jus as well as anyone else!!! hes just old!

I just don't understand how somebody who has never even played in a real tourny can put someone down that has won the biggest tourny known to man. Brunson yes old but can still play with any of the pros.

I don't understand the first comment. Just writing that book and giving his knowledge makes him one of the all-time greats, besides winning all those tourneys.

all-time great. the new players do not have half the gamble as brunson and he has much more class than them.

I bought his book and ever since I have been playing a lot better!!!!

Doyle is a great player.He is still a winner in the big cash games,but doesnt play as many tournements these days,because he doesnt have the stamina needed (understandable when you look at him) he did how ever win a wpt event this year,so dont write him off in tourneys yet!

yes all hail the two time main event champion with fields of 30 and 54???? thats a joke...he won events with like 30-50 entrants and hasnt made the final table since AND since when is going all in in the dark such great poker...and poker is skill cuz between doyle and fischman doyle had the extreme skill to win a coinflip

not so much the hand that doyle beat that punk fischman but its how doyle got in his head..doyle owned him.why is it that every pro says doyle is one of the best ever but you come in here , never doing anything in poker and dismiss him..its laughable...go put your 11 bucks up on an internet tourney,thats the level your on...dont knock guys like doyle until you are fit to be in the same room as them...

warwick cotterill...brunson and the other "old guard" players like chip reese have a crapload of success in NLH. Just not in the little WPT tourneys you watch on ESPN. Its a pity they dont play the big World Series side games and other cash games on TV because you dont see any of these young tourney players winning them (like Negreanu, Ivey etc) instead you see the veterans taking all the money in the side games/cash games.

Doyle certainly holds his own in the side games,and Chip Reese does even better.I'd say ive seen Ivey have more success at the side games than either of them two this year.Again like ive mentioned earlier im only saying what ive seen to be the case.Its hard to get much of a gage on how Doyle does he rarely plays long sessions at the bellagio these days.My main point was about Hellmuth though,you wont see him involved in any side action.

[alextt]

he is the best poker player, and no one can really argue with that !!

[extremekaratekid]

no one can compare to this man 72 and still young. 10 bracelet winer and best poker player around!!!!!!

[?????]

He beat fields of 22 & 34, sucking out on the turn and river
with the worst hands both times....screw all those phoney bracelets, with fields of under 150...His best win ever was
in 2005 at the ledgens w/ 667 entries...then 2005 WSOP 6 handed per table w/301 entries....WSOP braclets with 150+ entries are only(3)w/150+...Chan with(5)w/150+ Hellmuth with eight(8) w/150+
Hellmuth's average field 324 entries..Chan 224. Brunson 221

Hellmuth is the most sucessful tournament Hold'em player by
far, as well as the most sucessful bracelet winner in the WSOP period!....All of his braclets are NLH-LH-PLH, whereas
Brunson included in his short fields is a piece of garbage
mixed doubles title (total BS), and Chan beat Hellmuth is a
"Heads-up" piece of garbage tournament.

Wow. That was the most retarded thing I've ever read in my life. How is it that Phil Helmuth is the best tournement player ever. All his wins HAVE been in holdem'. Meaning, if he is in any other event he's not much of a threat. You seem to think that larger fields of players equal higher quality of player, but these fields are filled with the most ignorant players I've ever seen. The Main Event has become nothing more then a lottery. Name one champion in the past few years that wasn't at one point all-in and behind, only to draw out and double up. The fact is that when you are playing heads up you have to play a lot more hands, and Doyle Brunson is good enough to win with out making a hand, so there was no reason for him to fold just because "he didn't have it." Plus he flopped top pair both times then made two pair on the turn. If you're a person that will just give up top pair heads up, you should even be playing. Doyle is an aggressive player and would have played second pair if he thought it was right. This person makes it sound like Doyle called an all-in with just a gutshot on the turn. So if you think Doyle Brunson is overrated, then get a couple hundred thousand, play him heads up, and see what happens.

beener in reference to your "he's been gettin his ass kicked in big games lately" lemme remind you of something out of a multi-thousand person field out of the several times you get all your money in you have to escape a multiple of bad beats even gettin your money in a 4-1 favorite 4 times obviously your gonna lose 1. The horse game he made the final table. Doyle is the man lol

[?????]

It's apparant that you were educated in Public Schools!.......
I SAID HELLMUTH WAS THE MOST SUCESSFUL HOLD'EM TOURNAMENT
PLAYER, then you go on about other games.

[?????]

For your information, Raymer and Gold were never all-in, when
all their chips were at risk!...That's how you play the monster stacks, and you will get beat some hands, and ypu'll draw out with the worst hand...but if you have (ie) 800,00, and your opponents have 100,000, you're not risking your chips, until you lose 3/4 of these types of "all-in"...Once Raymer and Gold got the big stack, they kept looking for these types of opportunities...AND THEY MADE IT WORK FOR THEM!....You have the wrong idea about this game.

[bad_dog76]

I agree with ?????. Hellmuth is THE GREATEST TOURNAMENT HOLD EM PLAYER EVER!!!!!!!!!! PERIOD!

And pay no mind to that idiot, "unregistered" who obviously has no clue on how to play "big stack poker" since he's never had the big stack in any tournament he's ever played at, obviously.

I've played in house games with bigger tournamnets than 22 and 34 people. Still, Brunson is a legend and was probably the best player of his era (which was the dark age) LOL!