Brickbats for Brunson
All great persons have had detractors and Doyle Brunson’s greatness in the field of poker cannot be denied. In his long innings he has become used to be at the receiving end of brickbats. But of late Brunson has come up against a different kind of adversary, an Internet stalker.
A person using the alias “LeeTheStrikerChagra” makes vituperative posts about Brunson in several poker forums. It is believed that he anonymously posted at a popular poker forum that he could not wait for Brunson to die. Brunson responded to the stalker in his own post. For those not in the know Brunson explained that Lee Chagra was a brilliant criminal lawyer but also “the head of the biggest drug cartel in Texas history”.
Brunson has played Sherlock Holmes and come up with a description of the stalker on the basis of his posts. The stalker is an atheist, middle aged, a coward, knows nothing about poker and struggles to pay his rent. The others are okay, but the conclusions of the stalker being middle aged and struggling to pay his rent are a bit far fetched. Brunson says that he can live with being called “just another Stetson wearing obese hick from Texas” but having his death predicted is too much. Maybe this was the reason Brunson went for a full physical a few weeks back. Brunson says that he would like to meet this Chagra character in a dark alley sometime. Just in case his wish comes true Brunson has started keeping a loaded gun in all his vehicles.
Brunson called the Internet stalker “[a] pathetic poster who doesn’t have the balls to let anyone know who he is”. Brunson has been receiving brickbats from another person who matches the first part of this description but not the second. Annette Obrestad has gone on record saying, “Online players process information so much faster and don’t let their egos get in the way of becoming a better player. No disrespect to Doyle, but I’d rather play him.” Brunson has not yet responded to this comment. Perhaps he will do so in his next blog or he may not, thinking it to be too trivial for his attention. But one thing is for sure. No one can separate the history of poker in America from the life story of Doyle Brunson.
Dealt Out said
am June 11 2010 @ 11:16 am
Wow, there is always something going on in the Poker world. Brunson seems to really be taking it personally, but I can’t really blame him.