Doyle Brunson on Obama and Longevity
Doyle Brunson’s blogs make interesting reading because they cover more than poker and when they do cover poker they touch upon the larger picture.
The Mike Huckabee TV show with Las Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman as the guest opened some old wounds for Doyle Brunson. President Obama had created a major backlash with his anti Vegas comments a few months back. The President had said that rolling the dice on the Vegas Strip was not the wisest move to make when needing to save for college and had referred to gambling at Vegas casinos as blowing a bunch of cash. In the Huckabee show Goodman said that statistics revealed a gigantic dip in canceled conventions after the President’s first comment and a sharp decline in tourist traffic after his second comment. Therefore Goodman squarely blamed the President for Vegas being the hardest hit city from the recession. Doyle concluded, “I don’t see how any resident in Nevada could ever vote for Obama after this.”
Doyle goes back to the presidential election when he voted for McCain. Doyle conceded that Obama was then projected as being good for poker and was sure to win. He had voted for McCain out of Republican loyalty. In his blog Doyle writes, “If I thought my vote would have mattered, I probably would have voted for Obama.” Today poker players have every reason to be let down. Less than two years down the line prosecutions of online poker payment processors are up and the UIGEA rules have been implemented. Instead of offering even lip support to online poker the President has condemned gambling at large.
The second interesting issue in Doyle’s blog is his fitness. Doyle went for complete physical and after a graphic no holds barred description of the tests conducted by the doctor Doyle gave his readers the doctor’s verdict. He said, “… the heart doctor said, barring some unforeseen complication or disease, I should live into my 90’s.” Given the fact that Doyle is not yet 77, he has a long way to go. This reminds me of some buffoon who had created a list of 100 celebrities who were most likely to die in 2009. Doyle Brunson was No. 16 on that list. That guy will not dare to include Brunson again.
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