At 76 years old, Doyle Brunson has seen it grow from the back rooms poker illegal in Texas to a worldwide phenomenon.
However, twice winner of the Main event said that the game itself really is not very different.
“In essence has not changed,” Brunson said in an interview with casino-poker-newsonline.com. “What people do not understand is that players are playing against you dictate your game.”
“I have preached the aggression and all these strategic measures for some time, but these guys do not work because the Internet is what they do. So therefore I’ve changed my game a long time.”
“We have to change what you do what is beneficial in the situation.”
Whether in a game in Bobby’s Room at Bellagio or within the Empire Casino in Leicester Square in the WSOPE, 10-time winner of a WSOP bracelet, said:
“Poker is about people who play it, I have always said that,” he said. “It’s not about charts, it is people.”
The global boom of poker has grown to the point where there are World Series events on both sides of the Atlantic, and there is high buy-in tournaments in different parts of the world almost every week.
While doing an effort to play in both events at the WSOP in Las Vegas and London, traveling Brunson increasingly these days and thinks that the wear of the tournament is just too much.
“I think probably would be dead if not for poker.”
“I think there are many tournaments,” he said. “There’s a tournament every week somewhere. I think that a tournament should be something special. A special event in the life of the people, not just one more week.”
“I think we should have to be only a small number of big tournaments. Of course I’m partial to the cash games and tournaments they are shocked at this.”
When you are at home in Las Vegas, Brunson still can be found playing marathon sessions in cash games at Bellagio and says he remains young poker.
“I think probably would be dead if it were not for poker,” he says. “The poker gives me energy. There is a saying: It’s a shame that my youthful spirit that locked in this mortal body and have to grow old. Until last year I did not really realized that I was getting older.”
“The game, which produce adrenaline, causing blood to continue flowing and has kept my mind sharp, reading or playing poker, doing something. I have blessed with good genes. In my family live into their nineties, so I hope be around for a while. ”
After playing in the WSOP for the first time in 1970, Brunson is still surprised by the growth of the game and the fact that he is now playing for the bracelet in the United Kingdom.
“Nobody could have foreseen this,” he said. “Benny Binion (founder of the WSOP) told me once, probably in the last years of the 70s,” You know, we might have 100 people in this tournament one day. “Now we have 8500 or something.”
“No one knew and no one knows where it will go.”
Brunson What if he knows is that there’s a World Series bracelet in reach, always have a seat at the table.
