Fascinating true-life adventure of an American treasure, a man who
bluffed death, survived the mean streets of Fort Worth and mob-run
Las Vegas, and bet millions of dollars on everything from poker to
golf, to become a two-time world champion poker player.
The story of Doyle Brunson, an American treasure and the greatest
poker player of all time, is one for the ages. It's a story of guts
and glory, of good luck and bad, of triumph and unspeakable
tragedy, of courage and grace. He has survived whippings, gun
fights, stabbings, mobsters (the real-life ones portrayed in the
movie Casino), murderers, and a death sentence when, riddled with
incurable cancer, he was given months to live by doctors who told
him his hand was played out. Apparently, fate had never played
poker with Brunson--he lived. Of a group of 32 men he played poker
with in the tough alleys of Texas, just he and one other survived
the treacherous perils of that life. A master of the bluff, his
most outrageous bluff came after being pistol-whipped and told he's
going to die with a gunman pointing a pistol at his forehead.
Again, he lived. He's gambled for millions of dollars--and with his
life against the real-life mobsters and killers made famous in the
movie Casino--and was the biggest sports bettor in the world with a
reputation of betting enormous sums of money on just about
anything. Doyle has not only made more money at golf than anyone
else until Tiger Woods came along, he once bet one million dollars
on a single hole--that, when he was virtually wheelchair-bound and
could barely stand. He's been hard-up flat broke more times than
he's got fingers and has won millions of dollars just as many
times. Brunson has seen it all: from the athletic dreams and a leg
shattered by a freak injury which waylaid his path to the NBA (he
was drafted by the Lakers), to the devastating death of his
first-born daughter, to outrageous exploits like trying to discover
Noah's Ark and raise the Titanic. Doyle's rollercoaster of a life
defines the saying: Truth is stranger than fiction. Twice a winner
of the prestigious World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, he's won
millions and lost millions--sometimes in seconds--but decidedly
more of the former than the latter. Brunson can still be found
playing in the highest stakes poker games in the world, often with
as much as one million dollars in front of him. To every one of the
250 million people worldwide who play poker each year, Doyle
Brunson, is the legendary "Babe Ruth of Poker"--the greatest
gambler and poker player who has ever lived.
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