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Doyle Brunson chosen to represent the United States at the Intercontinental Poker Championship

The legendary Brunson will compete against players representing 20 other countries from around the world

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The Legendary Doyle Brunson (see web site here) has been chosen to represent the United States at the Intercontinental Poker Championship. The first stage of the tournament is scheduled to take place this weekend at The Palms Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The tournament will feature Doyle Brunson and 20 other players from 20 different countries competing for a $500,000 first place prize and a trophy, and will be televised later this summer as the first poker tournament to be carried by the CBS network.

Alongside the 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Doyle Brunson (United States), other players scheduled include:

Australia…Antanas Guoga
Canada…Daniel Negreanu
China…Johnny Chan
Costa Rica…Humberto Brenes
Denmark…Gus Hanson
England…David Ulliott
France…David Benyamine
Ireland…Don O’Day
Israel…Eli Elezra
Italy…Marco Traniello
Japan…Yosh Nakano
Lebanon…Sammy Farha
Mexico…Refugio Quintero
Norway…Thor Hanson
Russia…Ralph Perry
Spain…Carlos Mortensen
South Africa…Stephen Wolff
South Korea…Jimmy Cha
Sweden…Chris Bjorin
Vietnam…Chau Giang

The No-Limit Hold’em event will broadcast in an 8-episode series on CBS Sports from June 17-July 22, 2006.

Other than his poker success, his greatest achievement is probably the book that is considered to be the bible of poker: Super System. Originally self-published in 1978, Super/System was the book that transformed poker by giving ordinary players an insight into the way that the professionals like Brunson played and won, so much so that Brunson believes that having written the book cost him a lot of money. An up-to-date sequel to Super/System was published in 2004 called Super System II. Besides Brunson, several top poker players contributed chapters to Super/System including Bobby Baldwin, Mike Caro, David Sklansky, Chip Reese and Joey Hawthorne. The book is subtitled “How I made one million dollars playing poker”, by Doyle Brunson. Brunson is also the author of Poker Wisdom of a Champion, originally published as According to Doyle by Lyle Stuart in 1984.

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