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Doyle's World Series

By Bluff magazine

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Doyle Brunson was a 37-year-old road gambler when, in 1970, he was summoned to a rendezvous of poker players by his good friend Benny Binion. Benny had invited the best players he knew to his Horseshoe Casino in downtown Las Vegas and dubbed the occasion -- somewhat grandly for what was then a modest affair -- "The World Series of Poker." But why not? The assembled players were the greatest in the world: Johnny Moss, "Puggy" Pearson, "Sailor" Roberts, Crandall Addington, Amarillo Slim and Carl C ...

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