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WPT Vietnam World Championship Passport.We won about $12 million in two weeks, playing bad golfers who thought they could beat a guy on crutches.” If I had a million-dollar putt that somebody else had to make, I’d want Doyle to shoot it. “He would drop the crutch, we’d hand him his putter and he would land the shot. “We would drive the cart onto the green and help Doyle out,” said Tomko. He struggled to walk, got around on a Rascal and relied on a crutch - but that did not stop him from participating in big money matches. They took the $90,000 in chips that I had on me, but nothing else, and ran out of the house without hurting anyone.”ĭewey Tomko, a pro gambler and longtime friend of Brunson, told The Post that Brunson spent the later years of his life playing golf. “My alarm system went off, I wouldn’t give them the code and faked a heart attack. “The guys dragged me inside,” Brunson told me. That didn’t work out.”Ħ Well into old age, Doyle Brunson held his own against younger competitors such as Layne Flack (right). 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. 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. Poker star accused of cheating in $250K buy-in gameĭoyle 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. Nate Silver made brutal all-in call to end run at WSOP: ‘F–king poker’ Poker fraudster lied about having terminal cancer, raised $30K to enter World Series tournament

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