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More determined than ever

By Steve Rosenbloom

Thursday, August 3, 2006

LAS VEGAS - Doyle Brunson was worn out. Tired. Exhausted. Beaten down, if not beaten up at the poker table. This was last year at the World Series of Poker. He was telling me how drained he felt, what with promoting the book "Super/System 2,'' still signing copies of the "Super/System 1,'' poker's version of the Old Testament, making appearances for his online poker site "Doylesroom" and continuing to be unfailingly polite with the hundreds of fans who wanted a picture or an autograph o ...

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