Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson

Although he has not a bad reputation, Doyle Brunson is as famous as Phil Helmuth. Doyle, or more popularly known as Texas Dolly, was born in Texas in 1933.

Doyle Brunson is also known for his numerous quotes on poker. And you can say he is a reliable source for poker quotes because he has played poker most of his life, so he really knows what he is saying.

Doyle Brunson's poker life has produced many records in the poker history. He was the first one who have earned one million dollars from the poker tournaments he played in. He also won the most number of world series of Poker bracelets, along with Johnny Chan. He has also won two main events in World Series of Poker consecutively, which seldom happens. Actually, only three other poker players have done it.

His moniker came from an announcer who mispronounced his name. Ever since the incident, he is more commonly known as Texas Dolly than by his own name.

Doyle Brunson has a poker hand named after him. This is the 2-10 hand. It became to be called as such because Doyle Brunson became had won with this starting hand in two World Series of Poker championships. This hand, by the way is one of the worst starting hands in poker. This just proves how much a good poker player he is because he could win with one of the worst starting hand in Texas Hold'em Poker. However, he doe not want that kind of popularity.

You may think that Brunson was a poker player right from the very start. Surprisingly, he was a basketball and track and field athlete during his younger years. He injured his knee while he was working, so he had to stop from playing basketball and track and field for a while. Beccause of that, he had more time to play poker, and he developed his poker skills more. He earned a bachelor and a master's degree, and then he worked as a salesman. He found that being a salesman was not his calling, so he quit. He decided that he should start a poker career instead, in which he is really really good.

His decision of starting a poker career proved to be wise. He has not only done what he enjoyed to do for more than forty years, but he also earned a lot of millions because of poker.