

Raised religious in Longworth, Texas, Brunson grew up more into sports than cards - he even had a shot of making it in the NBA before blowing out his knee while playing for Hardin-Simmons University. That didn’t work out.” Doyle Brunson made his share of longshot investments, including chewing gum that cleaned your teeth, an attempt to raise the Titanic and a search for Noah’s Ark (seen here as a replica in Kentucky). 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.
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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. Sex offender gets life for burning pro poker player aliveĭoyle 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. Florida man enters women’s poker tournament - and winsįTX lawyer tied to online poker scandal flipped on Bankman-Fried: report
