“The guys dragged me inside,” Brunson told me. That didn’t work out.”Ħ Well into old age, Doyle Brunson held his own against younger competitors such as Layne Flack (right). You chew on it, like gum, and supposedly it brushes your teeth. I remember a thing called ChewBrush that we invested in. “Then we got involved with a Christian television station, through a guy in Mobile, Alabama. They gave it to Chip and I,” Brunson told me years ago about himself and poker pro Chip Reese, his sometime business partner. They supposedly got up the boat and sent back a piece of it. “We invested in going to look for the Titanic, which we almost found before running out of money.
“He was good at being very likable when taking your money.”Īdded pro Barry Greenstein, “Doyle was the only guy near his age who still won in the most competitive games.”īut Brunson, who was reportedly worth $75 million, did not apply his brilliant gaming strategies to the business world: He once told me about having “made many, many bad investments. “He was just smarter than everyone else,” high-stakes poker player Ben Lamb told The Post. Poker star accused of cheating in $250K buy-in gameĭoyle Brunson, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 89, was known as the Godfather of Poker and one of history’s greatest pro players. Nate Silver made brutal all-in call to end run at WSOP: ‘F–king poker’ Poker fraudster lied about having terminal cancer, raised $30K to enter World Series tournament
