The creators behind Michael Jordan’s award-winning series The Last Dance are filming a documentary about Doyle Brunson’s life according to the tweet from the man itself.


https://en.pokerpro.cc/news/creators...unson-300.html

Very nice.

I wonder if that will cause a bit of a poker resurgence similar to how The Last Dance helped spark sports card collecting again.

It will. Mainly from OMCs. Which would naturally encourage regs and former regs to come circling the prey...

Buy yours now.

If he's going to give an honest account of what it was like in the early days of poker and what he had to do to win, it'll be interesting. Will they dive into Amarillo Slim? Did he ever cheat?

If it's (more likely) just a rehashing of his ramblin gamblin days when it was all fun and adventures and no one really got hurt and how he woulda made the NBA if not for his broken leg...pass.

This was the first thing I thought off myself. Doyle likes to spin a little bit of bullshit here and there. I think there was something in Super System that said after god helped him cure his cancer he went on a run of a 100 sessions without a losing one, something ridiculous. You call him out on any of it and he gets in a fit. The story about Johnny Moss and Nick The Greek changes every time.

I'd love to hear about the early days of the WSOP and really wish someone would do a thing about the history of the WSOP. Today Doyle doesn't admit he ever took a chop or buy out in the early Main Events. Its well known that when Slim won they took a chop and declared Slim the winner. Years ago Doyle would tell that story, but he's changed that story around lately.

I think you won't hear the true stories until Doyle is gone. I think Doug Polk has gone after Doyle in the past and Doyle got all upset and hurt claiming how everyone is just mean.

Peter Coyote reading old Johnny Hughes posts would make for good voiceover.

I think it was 50 something in a row and I think one of the best players of all time playing against 1960s-1970s era competition playing long sessions could definitely have a winning streak that long. Not unreasonable.

God, no.

.......... lol

If he had as high as an 80% chance of any one session being profitable, then it's not too far off of a 100,000/1 shot of having 50 winning sessions in a row.

Is it a documentary or an autobiography? I would assume it would make a more appealing and interesting film if it did not gloss over everything Doyle might gloss over.

What if he has as high as 90%? Then it's a half a percent chance. What if it's 95%? Then it's an 8 percent chance. I mean we're talking one of the greats who wrote the poker bible playing against cattle ranchers, oil tycoons, drug dealers, and the like right? He used to play for days at a time back then so that would increase his winning percentage. What if his opponents just never really played back at him and overfolded to him, that would also reduce variance and increase his winning percentage. It's not totally unreasonable he could have won 50+ sessions in a row back then.

If it was limit games or mixed games like he plays now in which the PL/NL games are capped, it might be easier to have a higher percentage of winning sessions than playing NLHE or PLO. He apparently played mostly NLHE is Texas, but he has played mostly mixed games for at least the last 25 years.

Doyle played in super deep stacked UNCAPPED games. And he would play for 36 hours regularly against the same opponents the entire time. He'd stack them with low connectors with chips that he had previously bluffed and stole from them.

A 50 game winning streak probably happened more than once. Although he only admitted to one, following his tumor recovery.

He was a cheat. I believe all of Russ Georgiev's claims.

Here we go poker boom incoming

That's part of what he talks about in his book, low suited connectors and bluffing.

Great development and I could not think of a better person to feature in the documentary

I hope they don't ignore Luc Longley this time

Do we think Doug Polk will be featured in the documentary? Who else?

Trivia: Scotty Nguyen made the final table when Doyle won both of his last 2 WSOP bracelets

Agreed. The conditions were probably very different back then.

lol this, never bought the “wholesome grandpa” line, give us the stories from being cliqued up w benny binion

can’t be bad for poker though, fingers and toes crossed for rec influx

If online poker is mentioned it will likely be in two contexts:

1) online poker players wrecked the live game

2) Doyle had an online poker room that went under and he magnanimously paid out all the debts

neither are likely to be good for online poker