Doyle Brunson has played poker professionally for over 50 years and still is very enthusiastic about the game. In fact, at the age of 78 he still lives and breathes poker around the clock.
In his latest blog, "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm", he writes that nothing else matters when he's playing poker and that he's thinking about how he can imp[...] Read more » Doyle Brunson: "I can't believe the difference in my life when I'm not playing poker"
Joined: Mar '12
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It's such a demanding profession mentally more than anything but so time consuming that the rest of your life can suffer hugely.
My g/f has complained i get cranky when I've been playing a long session and then you want to figure what you did wrong, so you review and read...so thats more poker.
I can only imagine that a pro is even more ott poker all the time - must be hard to live with someone that is entirely intense about it.
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When possible, the professional career should be done in something people love, so that the job can be the less hard possible. Probably, like many old time poker pros, Brunson didn’t started playing thinking he could do that for living, it just keep going with good results til he realized he didn’t need to do anything else for living. And, on top of that, he loved to do it. And that’s why it hurts so much to reach a time in which he can’t keep doing as much as he would like to. He loves it, his mind wants to keep doing it, but his body doesn’t let him do it the way he would like to. Just to give na exemple, in Portugal there’s a film producer with 102 years old (the oldest film producer in the world) that recently said in na interview that he still has a dozen films to do before he stops, but he already realized he probably won’t be able to do them all. Mortality sucks (in some cases, of course)!
yeah he is very addicted to it that he has dedicate all his life to poker....which is a very good inspiration...spending a lifetime must have been a wonderful experience...specially if your a pro like doyle...
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its no other than any pro athlete, singer, businessman etc. think and do- they all give everything they can for their job, they try to become better at what they are doing, always looking for ways to improve, handling the negative situations with calm and keep moving on with confidence- that's why most of people fail at poker, they just want to relax, have fun, and if you go with this attitude it will be hard to be a winning player in the log term
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You have to love the guy who takes his game so serious. That's what his life adventure is and always has been about I guess. I know it was enjoyable to watch him play with some of the young guns on High Stakes Poker, which I miss a lot. It's great that he can still enjoy the game and get satisfaction after decades.
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I have read some part of his books and it seems that 'old shoe' Mr.Doyle never change from his youth.Keep on going,Mr.Doyle until...... P.S.The book is very good but i think that is focused on live poker.Unfortunately i play only online.
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Theres only 1 Doyle Brunson 10 2 clap clap clap!!! theres only 1 Doyle Brunson 10 2 clap clap clap!!! theres only 1 Doyle Brunson 10 2 clap clap clap!!! HIT DA FLO FLOATED THE TURN SHOVED ON THE RIVER AND THEY ALL WENT DOWN!!! GG YOU MADE HISTORY MAN. WTG DB
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If he have "mental pains" when he don't play, he must be addicted to poker. But he's one of the greatest poker player of all-time, so it' pretty normal
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