Brunson Poker
We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Brunson has won 10 WSOP bracelets, and his poker strategy book Super/System, originally self-published in 1978, became the bible for a whole generation of poker players. In 2006, after Super/System 2 was published, Brunson was voted by Bluff Magazine the most influential force in the world of poker. 1976: Doyle Brunson wins the WSOP Main Event. Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Loses $175,000 On Super Bowl.
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Todd Brunson isn't the most exciting player in poker history, he's not the most accomplished and the fact that his dad is practically the godfather of the game isn't doing Todd any favors as far his popularity is concerned. That being said, Brunson still managed to have a long and successful career with very little help from his more famous father. Todd's accomplishments are also relatively easy to overlook given how he's primarily a live cash game player. Even still, he managed to win one WSOP event and earn more than $4,000,000 in tournament winnings. We can safely assume that his cash game results are far more impressive.
According to a 2005 book 'The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King' Brunson won over $13.5 million in a two-day span playing heads-up, $50,000/$100,000 limit hold-em game. Given the nature of poker, every talented youngster can go on a short heater but the ability to fend off variance for decades is what truly deserves our praise and that's why we're going to take a closer look at Todd Brunson's game.
Thin Value For The Win
Todd Brunson has a reputation of being a rather tight player. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. Making sure that your ranges are stronger than the ranges of your opponents in important spots, was always a great strategy for winning at a poker table. When we combine that with increasing the frequency of the spots that we find ourselves with against the recreational players, we have a winning formula on our hands. Playing a solid tight-aggressive poker is also a lot more difficult in tough environments where other players try to punish us for conservative hand selection with frequent steals. Given how Brunson managed to thrive in the context of difficult Vegas cash games it's pretty safe to assume that he has this whole 'tight aggressive' thing figured out.
In the hand presented above Todd combined both of the cornerstones of tight aggressive play - he made a somewhat loose preflop call in order to play a hand against a perceived recreational player and he showed up with the goods at the end of the hand. Cate Hall might not be your garden variety fish in a barrel, she's an accomplished player with more than $1,000,000 in tournament winnings, but a kinder riff on Mike McDermott's idea from Rounders would lead us to believe that there's a recreational player in every game, no matter how tough it is. It's simply a matter of degrees. In any case, Cate Hall certainly did nothing wrong on the first few streets of the hand seeing as both her 3bet with KK and the first two value barrels were pretty standard. Todd made a slightly questionable preflop call and he followed it up with a classic way ahead/way behind the approach, calling twice against an opponent that should have a somewhat polarized range.
The river is where the hand got interesting. Top card pairing the board is often fairly awkward for aggressive player with initiative given how he or she can no longer represent a top pair type hand with the same success. Also, top card pairing the board often means that the top of the range of the aggressor now loses to a passively played top pair. In summary, there are plenty of reasons not to bet on such a card in many spots, and betting again is often very dishonest. Brunson would no doubt fold against a river bet on any other card, but this one both made his hand a whole lot better and allowed him to read Cate's hand for what it was.
Still Waters Run Deep
Doyle Brunson Poker Strategy
When you think Todd Brunson, you don't exactly think about huge bluffs. That being said, truly great tight-aggressive players are self-aware and they know that occasional deviation from their core strategy can be massively +EV. In this particular hand against Shaun Deeb, Todd made a fairly standard value 3bet with AJ and followed it up with a value continuation bet with top pair. Brunson checked on the turn to control the size of the pot for a number of reasons. First of all, he was out of position, the board was very wet and lastly, his opponent wasn't exactly someone that Todd could extract a bunch of thin value from.
After Shaun Deeb decided to check behind, Brunson most likely put him on a kind of hand that he has. It made no sense for Shaun to check behind with the top of his range on such a wet board and while he could still have some weaker combo draws that got there on the river, Todd had the mother of all blocker in this spot in for of an Ace of spades and he decided to utilize his image of a very tight player in order to make a massively +EV bluff.
Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson has announced his retirement from the game of poker. After 62 years of being a professional player, Texas Dolly will muck his cards one last time at the end of this summer when he says goodbye to the felt that has brought him success, fame, and a legacy that will resonate with poker players for decades to come.
Brunson will enter his final event at the World Series of Poker today, the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw, as a late entrant on Day 2. Speaking with the ‘Godfather of Poker’ before play got underway, Brunson spoke about his decision, some of his best memories, and the way he’d like to be remembered.
“I’m planning on retiring after the summer. My wife is not in very good health, and I will stay with her for the duration of either her life or mine,” Brunson said.
Doyle met his wife Louise in 1959 and got married in August 1962, added that he’s not only making his final appearance at the World Series of Poker, but he’s also saying farewell to his beloved Bobby’s Room.
“I’m going to stop playing completely, but while I might change my mind, I don’t think that I will. This will be the last time that my wife and I have to spend together, and right now, every day that I leave the house I feel guilty.”
“My daughter stays with my wife a lot, and I never play until late anymore these days so I can be with her, and after 57 years of marriage I feel like owe it to my wife to stay with her.”
Brunson, who won his 10th WSOP bracelet in 2005, says that he still cares about the prestige of the World Series of Poker and that he wished that he had tried harder in the early days to win them.
“The tournaments were just a means to get players to come out to Las Vegas. I never cared for them much. Looking back, I kind of wish that I had, because I could have won a lot more of them. On the other hand, I did really well in the cash games by skipping the World Series.”
In reference to the early days of the World Series of Poker and what he’s the proudest of, Brunson doesn’t mention any bracelet wins or big cash game sessions.
“It’s the friends that I’ve made through all those years. We all had a really tight bond, the original poker players that started the World Series of Poker. It was like a reunion every year, and these days I don’t remember more than two people in this room. Sadly, most of my close friends have passed away, but it’s that companionship that I look back on so fondly.”
Brunson was instrumental in growing the popularity of poker, most notably through his book Super System, and appearing on every major televised tournament and cash game. When looking back on his career that spanned more than six decades, Brunson refers to something else when asked about how he’d like to be remembered.
“I’d like people to make up their own mind about me, but if anything it’s the longevity in the game that I’m most proud of, and being able to have played at the ultra high stakes for all those years. I think that’s how I’d like to be remembered.”
Brunson Poker Net Worth
Right now, Brunson is surrounded by poker fans from all over the world as he gears up for what might very well be his last ever appearance inside the Amazon room.
Cached
“At this point, my mind is still at 80-90% of where it once was. I enjoy poker and I still win, and that’s my barometer. I still feel great, I feel like I’m 30 years old, except for my body. My body is breaking down, which I guess is normal, and it would be nice to win another bracelet. I don’t have many more opportunities, and in fact, this might be might be my last tournament ever.”
Brunson Poker Player
Over the course of his career, during which he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988, Brunson appeared on more poker TV shows than any player. PokerGO offers a wide variety of those episodes including throwbacks to the early days of Poker After Dark, the Super High Roller Cash Game and more recent appearances on “The Return of Tom Dwan” and “Holidays with Hellmuth.” Poker legend Phil Ivey spoke on Doyle’s retirement, read here what he had to say.