DOYLISM OF THE DAY: “May the work that you have be the play that you love.”

There is finally some poker action in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio.  We have lowered the stakes and more players are coming in. It’s really dumb to play so high no one except the ultra rich guys can play. I was completely exhausted when I got through traveling but after playing poker for 4 straight days, I feel great again. It is really amazing how playing helps me. I guess I’m a junkie after all these years.

DoylesRoom.com is putting on a “Twitter Followers Freeroll”  because I’ve got over 100,000 followers on Twitter. The winner gets a weekend in Vegas, dinner with me and partying with the young DoylesRoom pros. I guess they decided I couldn’t handle the partying and they may be right. The tournament is on this Sunday at 6pm Eastern time. I’ll tweet the password at 4pm Eastern the same day because our tournaments hold a few thousand players at a time. You have to have an account at DoylesRoom along with the password to play.

Cardoza publishing has already ordered the second printing of my autobiography because of the unexpected number of advance sells. It is going to hit the bookstores Nov. 10th and I’ve still got mixed feelings about writing this book.

I appreciate all the tweets, emails and phone calls expressing concerns over my toy poodle Casper. Casper jumped off a desk and knocked both his hips out of socket and Louise has to carry him everywhere because he can’t walk.  I should say couldn’t walk because he is able to walk on level ground now, he just can’t jump or put any weight on his back legs. Casper is tough and I expect him to last a lot longer as he is only 13 years old.

I’m back in retirement on pro football. I bet on Minn +6 points when Pitt made 2 defensive touchdowns in the last 5 minutes to beat me. I had Miami +6 against N.O. Saints and was ahead 24-3 at the half and lost. Then, I had Houston -3 and was ahead 21-0 at the half and managed to tie that one 24-21. I’m sure I’m going to get lots of sympathy, all poker players are unlucky when betting on sports.

-DB

DOYLISM OF THE DAY: “Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win is.”

Back from Montana! I’ll never complain about hot weather again. It was 3 degrees on the mountain my grandson lives on, along with 8 inches of snow. That cold cut through me like a knife. We had talked about having the Brunson Christmas at my place on the Flathead Lake but they can scratch that!

There are so many deer in upper Montana that you to be super careful not to hit one while driving. I saw 6 bodies on the side of the road on a 20 mile trip. There is all kind of wildlife. My friend has a large pond stocked with fish. He told me the eagles and osprey take 60-70 fish a day out of it. I had better be careful letting Casper run around outside because one of those big eagles could pick him up and fly away with him. I’ll bet Casper would get one good bite of that eagle if that happened.

I was there for the Todd Brunson Montana Challenge poker tournament. The weather was so bad we had less than 100 players but everyone had a good time. I told Todd to have his next on in the summertime. Of course, my daughter Pam was the “Last Brunson Standing.”

No disrespect intended, but these poker shows are awful. Full Tilt’s “Face the Ace” and Poker Stars “Million Dollar Challenge” are so bad, it’s embarrassing. There is no skill involved in either show and I can’t imagine getting an audience that will watch the shows. As I travel around, the High Stakes cash games are the ones all the fans talk about and I agree with them that they are by far the most interesting. Speaking of that, I read where A.J. Benza is being replaced on GSN’s High Stakes Poker show. That’s too bad, I like A.J.’s subtle sense of humor. Vanessa Rousso is named as his likely replacement. I’m pro-Vanessa so I think she will fit in nicely with the old comic Gabe Kaplan.

The golf-poker tournament in Orlando with David Leadbetter has been postponed because of some complications. I’m glad because along with Mike Caro, Daniel Negreanu, Todd Brunson and Dewey Tomko, I was one of the poker instructors. To tell you the truth, I’m traveled out! I look forward to staying home for a while. Harrah’s has asked me to do a few things in conjunction with the WSOP final table that I’m glad to do, but it would have been a tight fit to be back from Orland in time to do them.

My autobiography is supposed to be out November 10th and I’m doing a book signing right after the final table is completed. I’m having a special edition that I’m going to give to the final  nine. Also, at the book signing, or right afterwards, we are having a press conference to announce the signing of the 5th player to the Brunson 10 at DoylesRoom.com  I’m really pleased at the selection of this young man, as I am with the previous four.

I’ve started reading blogs. Again, I find the blogs about poker hands extremely boring. The same thing with the tweets on Twitter; does anyone really care about the hand by hand update of a poker tournament? If it was a real poker game and someone tweeted they had just won a million dollar pot, it would interest me.  But I guess some folks like the updates, that’s why they make chocolate and vanilla – different tastes.

After saying I want to stay home, I’m leaving in the morning for Abilene, Texas. My University is inducting me into their athletic Hall of Fame. After being turned down for 40 years I have mixed feelings, but all my old teammates will be there, so I’m going down and will be on my best behavior.

-DB

Doyle Brunson Gains Momentum for 11th Bracelet Win after Strong Weekend Finish

Greatest poker legend of all time proves that talent never fades with strong 7th place finish in million-dollar event at WSOP

San Jose, Costa Rica – June 22, 2009 – Doyle Brunson has his eye focused on bracelet number 11 at the World Series of Poker and if this weekend’s performance is any indication of what’s next for Brunson, there’s an extremely good chance he’ll scoop it up in no time.

The poker legend just finished strong in Event #37 in Las Vegas, proving that championship talent never fades. The $10,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split featured 164 players and a total prize pool of $1,541,600. Brunson, who finished 7th in the tournament, earned $62,234.

Brunson wasn’t the only DoylesRoom.com player to finish strong in the tournament. Mike Wattell, who was seen wearing DoylesRoom patches in the event, finished 3rd for $176,605.

The 2009 World Series of Poker is now underway at the Rio Al-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Brunson is planning to play in a number of events, including the Main Event, which gets underway on July 3rd, 2009. Online poker players can follow Doyle Brunson’s progress through his social networking pages, all of which are accessible at DoylesRoom.com.

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DOYLISM OF THE DAY: “To break a bad habit, drop it.”

The cash games are over for now.  All the players that were here for the WPT Championship have left and the locals are tired and worn out. My decision to not play in the poker tournament was justified by my wins in the cash games.  I would have had to win the championship to equal my cash game wins. I needed it because I’ve been in a funk the last month.  It will probably be the WSOP before the cash games get good again.

I played Phil Ivey a few hours of “Doyle Sez”.  I beat him, but in all fairness, I held all the cards. We played 6 card Razz with the best low being a 7-5-4-3-2. I played that a lot 30-40 years ago and it’s a tricky game. To Phil’s credit, he caught on pretty fast but I’ve got some more games for him if he wants to continue. We had lots of fun, even though we were playing for big money.

I’ve started a new health kick. I eat local honey mixed with cinnamon.  It is supposed to be good for arthritis, fatigue, heart problems, bladder infections and colds, plus it strengthens the immune system.  Four tablespoons of honey to every tablespoon of cinnamon can be mixed into tea or eaten as a jam on toast. Tastes pretty good and I have a friend that said it worked miracles on him. I’ll let you know if it helps me.

My best friend from my childhood through college is having heart bypass surgery. It seems everyone my age is having health problems. It makes me realize how lucky I am to be healthy and no major problems. I’ve even learned how to prevent sagging. You just eat until the wrinkles fill out

-DB

DOYLISM OF THE DAY: “Benny Binion believed in justice. He spelled it Just Us.”

I just watched a clip about the terrorists that were being held at Guantanamo Bay.  The question was if the United States did the right thing in torturing the prisoners to get information.  President Bush approved and caught a lot of heat about it.  I recently had a conversation with a couple of “famous” poker players about this very thing.  I can’t believe anyone would object to anything that might save thousands of American lives. It’s not that I believe torture should be used in most cases, but my gosh, if we can prevent another 9-11, anything should be accepted.  Ask any relative of the 9-11 victims what they think.  If someone had a gun to one of your family and the only way you could stop them from pulling the trigger was to torture or even kill them, would you do it?  I hope your answer to that is yes.

Was President Truman justified in dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?  I say yes to that even though thousands of Japanese civilians were killed.  We didn’t start that war and when you think of all the Americans that would have died in a conventional ending, you gotta say it was right.  There has been lots of speculation about that decision by Truman over the years.  The story about him deciding to drop the bomb was that he was playing poker at the time.  I’ll bet he was one tough poker player.

DoylesRoom is really rolling.  There are more games than we had before and the signups are easier.  We have our weekly bounty tournament and it is becoming more and more popular.  It is every Wednesday night at 9:30pm eastern and the players can win up to $25,000 in bounties.  We have guest bounties each week with Kevin Connolly being our guest this week.  Kevin is the star of HBO’s Entourage and the new movie He’s Just Not That Into You with Ben Affleck, Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Aniston. The Hilton sisters Nicky and Paris are lined up for future guest bounties.

I just can’t make myself get up and go to the poker tournament in L.A.  I keep getting phone calls from my fiends because they hear I’m not feeling well. That’s true, but I don’t feel bad either, just a little fatigued.  It’s incredible, I usually never get tired.  Maybe old age really is sitting in. Whatever it is, I sure don’t like it.

-DB

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