Is that Brent Musberger and Jimmy the Greek in the background as well?

The ultimate sausage party.

I never noticed also that the dealer has gotten up from the table to let Doyle sit in his seat

The guy standing in the left most of the photo has a white towel inserted into and hanging out of his pants. Why?

Is that a Kindle Fire he is carrying in his left hand?

Young Men the Master in between the dealer and security guard...probably.

Also the guy biting pant towel's back shoulder and demon eyes behind him.

yea jimmy the greek. played with him razz at the stardust. he moaned and berated the dealers as bad as the worst of them. wasnt too good a player either.
and i looked like that guy back then and was there but that wasnt me and i dont know who it was.

It was winner take all before 1978. Did they make deals at the final table back then, Ray?

How do you look like now? Do you still have long hair?

How good were Jesse Alto and Bones Berland? The two guys that finished second to Doyle in 76 and 77?

the very first one was for 5,000 and not ten and jack binion added 5000 as a stake to each person so it looked better. next year 1971 it went to ten thousand. although i dont exactly remember how they did the 5000 added to make it look like ten and when. but by 1973 it was fully ten.
that is how i remember jack telling me how it went. i was there but didnt play except in a few side games of no limit five stud for the first few years of it. i was a seven stud player at that time.

i dont know about deals but most all were friends and would accommodate each other if needed but i suspect it was just played out. as time went on deals were made in all the tournaments if parties agreed but the house was not involved. and once bones berland ran off after winning a tournament without paying his backer. he was like that.
bones and jesse were both top players. jesse would steam so he didnt make money in poker. bones lost what he made in sports betting. and died owing many people he stiffed.
i liked playing with both of them. bones especially as he for some reason came in almost every pot i played. either he thought i was easy or he had a goal of breaking me. but most times he didnt and he really never had much money ever to be a threat in any game except a tournament. where he always got staked. and tried to screw his backer if he could.
some time i will tell how jesse tried to cheat me out of the all around championship in the 1980's

Towel guy’s magazine cover shirt is sublime as well.

I had some experience with Bones in the mid-1980s, and he was a complete low life. I don’t like to knock people after they’re gone, but this guy is a possible exception. Ray’s description of him is actually being polite, and he should not be remembered as one of the great old time poker players.

Best wishes,
Mason

The towel is for wiping off excess gusto.

When I first pointed out the guy's towel earlier in this thread I was just casual about it. But the more I look at it, the more intrigued and questioning I have become. I hope trying to figure out the truth about why anyone would wear a white towel like that with that kind of shirt does not turn into an obsession. I've studied fashion for the past 10 decades but I haven't been able to find anything like it.

I may seriously have to ask Doyle himself who that person is and why he has that white towel. The best scenario would be that the white towel person is a friend or acquaintance of Doyle, and that he is still living. And Doyle comes to this thread and tells us the details.

An acceptable scenario would be that someone who reads this thread knows Doyle and then shows him this thread. And maybe Doyle can come by here and tell us what's up with that white towel.

Todd Brunson, are your reading this? Erik Seidel, are you there? Jennifer Harman, are you reading this? Daniel? Anyone else? Can you refer Doyle to this thread please. Barry Greenstein, I know you know Doyle and that you post here. Please respond. Thank you.

Just a guess. Sweat towel.

ray zee or ray jing???

Vogue ?

There's a frood who really knows where his towel is... and maybe he's just a barback?

i think that guy was a reporter or with the cameraman. not sure.

The white towel is a lens wiper then. They had huge cameras back in those days. Thanks for the closure, Ray.

So cameras routinely smelled like sweaty nutsack back then?

It was called Brut.

Ode de nutsack...

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