The Godfather of Poker - Doyle Brunson

The Godfather of Poker - Doyle Brunson

A STORY FOR THE AGES
The story of Doyle Brunson, an American treasure and the greatest poker player ever, is one for the ages. It's a story of guts and glory, of good luck and bad, of triumph and unspeakable tragedy, of courage and grace. He has survived gunfights, stabbings, gangsters, murderers, and a death sentence when, riddled with incurable cancer, doctors told him he was all in. Apparently, fate had never played poker with Brunson - he won.

MURDER, MIRACLES, TRAGEDY & TRIUMPH
In one of the most exhilarating and remarkable true-life memoirs of the last century, Doyle Brunson, the Godfather of Poker, and the last link from the Wild West poker days of yore to today's modern games, holds little back. With notorious figures and modern-day celebrities moving in and out of the pages - Minnesota Fats, Titanic Thompson, Howard Hughes, Tony Spilotro, Lefty Rosenthal, Benny Binion, Leonardo DiCaprio, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Stu Ungar, and Pamela Anderson - Brunson's life reads like a movie.

Of a group of about forty men he played poker with in the murderous alleys of Texas, only Brunson and one other survived. He has faced death over and over again, including fearsome confrontations with the real-life mobsters made famous in the movie Casino. Brunson has been flat broke countless times and has won millions just as often, once betting $1.6 million on himself on a single round of golf - when he was virtually wheelchair bound. Brunson has seen it from athletic dreams shattered by a freak injury that ruined his chance to Play for the NBA Lakers to the devastating death of his first-born child, to the birth of Texas hold'em and his amazing record of ten World Series of Poker gold bracelets, to outrageous exploits like trying to find Noah's Ark and raise the Titanic.

You're about to be dealt the hand of a lifetime in this page turning, no-holds-barred account of the life of poker's biggest champion as told by the man who dared it all and did it all.