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Poker sensation Doyle Brunson has folded aged 89. The grinning Southern gent nicknamed “Texas Dolly” was one of the game’s definitive figures, with his greatest feat being back-to-back wins in the World Series of Poker in 1976 and 77. He crossed the million dollar winnings Rubicon in that same time period, and penned influential poker bible Super/System to show how he did it. Still a formidable player in his 80s, he retired in 2018 with a lifetime winnings north of six million dollars. He did it all in spite of receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis in 1962 where he was initially thought to have months to live. And you thought Wilko’s extra decade was lucky! pedro’s catacomb ensemble cashes in some 60 years past Brunson’s sell-by date.
Doyle Brunson
10 August 1933 – 14 May 2023, aged 89
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