Will Doyle Brunson Retire From Playing Poker?
Doyle Brunson is a living legend. The 77-year old Texan is synonymous with the game of no limit Hold’em and has played at the very highest level for more than 50 years, but could he be ready to make a fold for the last time. A recent conversation with Daniel Negreanu seems to suggest that he is going to, at the very least, quit playing tournament poker.
It has been quite a few months for Bruson, the winner of 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, as he has suffered from numerous personal health problems and deaths within his family and circle of friends leading to some to question Brunson’s ability to keep playing with the best in the business as he approaches eight decades of life. The biggest problem Brunson has faced recently was his cancer scare at the end of February where his dermatologist found a tumour in his left arm which resulted in surgery to remove it. Thankfully for Brunson the tumour was not malignant and required no further treatment, though he did develop another lump in the same arm but another incision leading Brunson to write on his popular Twitter account, “I’ve been carved on more than a Thanksgiving turkey in my life. Ouch.”
Indeed it was on Twitter where Brunson hinted at his poker retirement after exchanging a number of Tweets with Canadian pro Daniel Negreanu, after he had told his 90,000 fans that he had “Busted #napt AQ vs 10-10. I rarely bust day 1. If you regularly bust day 1 of these events you need to quit poker asap. Had no shot today” Brunson replied by telling Negreanu to “Go back and play the way you used to. I know you don’t think so, but you were much better…IMO”
Negreanu disagreed and also went all defensive when Brunson said he could not believe how many tournaments he has played this year, even prompting a bet from Negreanu that both Erik Seidel and Barry Greenstein would have played more than him in 2011 so far. He also put a thinly-veiled brag Tweet up saying he has had 11 consecutive winning years on the tournament front before telling Brunson, “you must be really bored btw, needling a guy right after he busts from a tourney! I’ll remember to get you next time you bust 
” Brunson responded by saying to Negreanu, “In your wildest imagination you can’t believe how bored and useless I feel. I may never go bust in another tourny, guess why?” but when the Canadian pressed Brunson for the reasoning behind his last Tweet he swerved the question and started talking about golf and Jennifer Harman instead.
Brunson pulled out of the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe citing the fact the travelling was taking its toll on him, along with the long days of having to sit playing poker. Whilst recovering from his recent surgery he withdrew from the NBC Heads Up Poker Championship and the PokerStars BigGame and he even wrote in his blog, “Winning bracelets and poker tournaments aren’t as important to me as they were a few weeks ago.” Could it be that Doyle Brunson is going to step aside and hang up his trademark Stetson once and for all? Only time will tell.
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