Doyle Brunson makes INCREDIBLE Fold at the 2021 World Series of Poker ($10,000 buy-in) 

A few things here. If this hand is played any other way that is more standard (TT opens and AK 3 bets or flats or TT limps and AK isos) Doyle goes broke for sure. Secondly I don’t really know what Doyle is targeting with this bet sizing at the end the way this hand played out. There are just so few draws and I really doubt that he takes a hand like 45s and bluffs like this across the turn into 2 others and on the river for full pot.

Imagine for a second this wasn’t Doyle Brunson and it was some unknown guy playing the main event. Everyone in the comments would be laughing at the AK over limp and the pot on the river when it seems like the opponent doesn’t have much

For all the haters, if you are lucky enough to make it to 88, you will be most likely sitting in your own dirty diaper and drooling on your chin...let alone playing the main at a reasonable level, we should honor the man if for anything for being as humble in victory as he was in defeat, god knows there arent many of those in our game past or present

In my life I've never seen 1010 and AK limp in the same hand. So unusual.

I remember reading a story about Doyle folding a full house to a bigger full house (both cards played in both hands). Then again, everyone underbluffed every spot back then, but still - he was ahead of his time.

I made a somewhat similar fold at my local $40 charity poker tournament. I blew their minds by casually folding bottom full house. I was up against the classic "failed limp-raise AA utg" trick and it was obvious from the start. Relative hand strength is an under-appreciated concept, particularly when emotions get high seeing those beautiful cards.

I’m sure Doyle put him on 99 the way he played it. I’m sure he’d be surprised of the boat he would have been shown. But a boats a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. It could even be a boat. You know how much we’ve wanted one of those.

"Beware the early limper" -Doyle from a cash game I remember watching a few years ago

I think Doyle is putting him on A2, A9, A10

Doyle is 88. Isn't that insane

If this was anyone but Doyle Brunson everyone would be ripping this play to pieces from preflop to river.

Similar to Gman's river overbet against Dwan's quads. Not an easy fold when you get raised - but doable.

It's worth watching the video. There were enough timing and physical tells to help Doyle find this fold on the river. Pre-flop we don't know what reads/tells/etc. were present because of the video editing. If Doyle reads him for a tight early position limp, given the need to preserve chips, I can see the over-limp with AK. It particularly fits in with the pre-GTO way people thought of the game. Against a tight EP limp we don't think over-folds to a c-bet, over-limping AQ, AJs, ATs, TT, etc. would be correct, right? So how big of a mistake is the AK over-limp? edit: Thinking about this over lunch. Doyle is sitting at a table with mostly rec players with misbalanced ranges and information leakage both via timing and body language. His decisions in this hand need to be considered with that in mind. I still agree that the pre-flop and the river bet sizes are mistakes, but in that context they're much smaller mistakes and I'd love to hear Doyle give his perspective on why that river bet gets paid by worse hands in that spot.

Doyle is Texas Holdem. They should change the name of the game to Texas Dolly in honor of him!

Doyle is a legend for a reason.

I wanna know how many people fold there in a Simulation of 1000 players in the Main Event Field. I say less than 10 percent

90 year old Doyle listing to this kid Bart talking about ranges thinking to himself "Don't go broke in a limped pot"

Doyle's transition from high-stakes crusher to Old Man Coffee is complete

In a cash game…, he’d lose his shorts. But this legend thought out exactly what you presented to us. Only a select few would have came to that conclusion and laid it down during a high stakes tournament.

Damn. I learned a lot on this breakdown. Thanks

I thought Doyle wasn't doing the ME anymore. Would be super epic if he shipped it🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Headline of the video says this fold is INCREDIBLE and then he spends a whole bunch of time saying it was not that big of a deal!

Great hand analysis as all your hand reviews are (I learn a lot from you). A minor correction - @7:05 Doyle didn't overbet the pot, he bet 12,000 into 12,500 which almost full pot, but not an overbet. An overbet is when you bet larger than the pot eg if Doyle had bet 13,000 or 15,000, that would be an overbet.

If Doyle raises prefolp- Nguyen folds on the turn and Doyle wins

How many WSOP have you played?

There are no A9s, ATs here. So its all about TT,99(6) as value hands( i guess he never limps A9o,ATo,22) and T9s(3) as bluff hands. 3:1 pot odds are really friendly for calling the bet considering the quality of players and the number of combos. Great fold.

What a fantastic fold

Lol @ hindsight analysis while seeing all the cards. Gotta love it.

Doyle was gambling when he overlimped hoping an under-repped hand could win a huge pot against a wide range. He's been wealthy and broke repeatedly because he gambles at the poker table. He's great enough to make this read and this fold, which is why he's won so much money playing poker.

Plot twist: Doyle aged enough to just play "old man poker".

After watching Dean and Ivey in their game and Doyle here, what is your opinion of playing preflop passive?

Scotty got lucky on the river, and Doyle knew it.

You have to respect those who came before, but let’s be honest here… with online poker playing as fast as it does, along with multitabling, Brunson is no longer the most experienced no limit player in the world.

Get it in pre and flip. What else do you want?

Impressive fold, especially cuz there wasn't really much that beat him here, no possible flush or straights, only 22 99 or TT. Not many ppl would make this fold, but indeed questionable the TT wasn't raised then? Still could've been 22s limping in tho.

Why not show the actual clip?

MIstake was the smooth call on the flop. Should of raised. Apart from that, he made a good laydown, but 10-10 if a decent player fold 10-10 on that spot.

Texas Dolly. 💜🙌

A huge check raise on the river, from a pro or amateur, is 99.99% a fold. I always see from pros. It’s a major tell. Doyle knows this, easy fold for him. This hand isn’t that difficult.

If you were Doyle, how much would you bet on the river since I agree that a pot size bet seems like an odd choice.

Let's remember that Doyle folded a J high flush against Jamie Gold's lower flush on HSP. If Doyle thinks you're nutted he'll make the big folds no matter what.

How deep were they? I don't see what the major issue is with calling AK (sometimes at least). Doyle is more used to playing deep stacked where tptk hands lose value. Doyle can only beat AQ and AJ and they probably can't reraise AND get called by worse on the river. Seems like a reasonable fold!

I have an original copy of his SuperSystem poker book.

This is why we play aggressive. We win this hand by the turn if played aggressively.

Anyone else would have called there Doyle must have got a read he didn’t like and that’s why he has so many bracelets!

Easy fold.

RU-vid for the last time I DO NOT SPEAK SPANISH. YOU ARE WASTING AD TIME.

Doy should bet 5k at the river to induce a call.

This is a great fold.

Standard fold to any tight player

Only Doyle, could make this read. I was wondering why he didn't make a move before the 10 came up. Like hit the bell sorta bet

Everyone in comments thinks they're poker pros lmao

This is never a fold in cash but in tournaments that must be a set all day

idc if its 10,000 dollars BI, garbage play from everyone involved in this hand, except for BB, the check pre into fold flop is good, good job.

Im going broke on this hand as Doyle haha

With the insane amount of hands you can see playing multiple tables online I have to wonder is Doyle still the most experienced player in the world? Certainly as far as high stakes live poker goes he is but are there players that have played more hands than him at this point? I'm curious to hear the answer. If I had to place a bet I'd say there's online players that have played more total hands in their lifetime than Doyle but that's just a gut feeling.

My arm chair quarterback comment is how on earth did 10-10 get to see the river. Doyle should of bet him out.

If I were Brunson , I 'll all in at first I got A set to protect show river.

dude u dont know the second player?Oo

What the fu*k are you talking about? IT WAS THE EASIEST FOLD OF THE DAY!

It's a good fold, but he's not playing against an aggressive pro like Landon Tice. It seems like a lot of amateurs play super tight in the Main Event so experienced pros can make folds like this.

Seems like a call to me...

I believe it’s def an old school play to trap

When your beat your beat

Doyle played the hand as if the opponent had a weak Ace. His value bet on the river was for a worse Ace. People are critiquing his play, but he wants weaker hands to call. He could of raised on the flop, but early in tournaments you want pot control and don't want to cooler yourself. Could of definitely been played differently though. Could of won a small pot or lost a whole lot more.

Wtf ?? Bro. I've been thinking that Doyle is been dead for a few years. 😳🤪

Haha. I watched this earlier and almost messaged asking you to review it! My sense was that it was a bad fold.

It isn’t that the fold was incredible, Brunson knew he played the hand poorly. One, he didn’t 3 bet and two, he didn’t raise after the flop. Having done both then the hand would be over. He played the hand the opposite of what he wrote in his book.

He spoiled his hand getting greedy! When the second ace came down I would have been doubling or tripling the pot!

He paid the price to slow play.

Show the video

Crushing it

Doyle 100

He should have raised pre flop, and he should have raised on the flop, and he should have bet more on the turn. All of those choices would have won him money, instead of losing it.

GOAT!!!

cash game goat RIP

It's not that big of a deal dude gave it away

Doyle has always been one of my least favorite famous poker players. This hand is yet another example of a hand where I just don't think he's playing it properly. Limping AK and then his bet size on the river are two examples of very poor decisions in this hand. I don't think it's that incredible of a fold by him here. It's hard for Nguyen to have a bluff and it's obvious that he's not doing this with a worse hand than what Doyle has. I don't understand why people think of Doyle as such a good player. I think he's the most overrated player in poker - so many people treat him like he's some type of god at poker.

It's not that big of a fold he's got like the tenth nuts

How doesn’t Doyle raise the flop?

I am starting to see more (counterintuitive) slow-play...some are calling it "Old School". It seems to be the natural reaction to the super-Aggro playstyle that came into popularity. Doyle subscribes to the maxim "Don't try to TAKE their money; Let them GIVE it to you."

This particular player happens to be the 2016 main event champion Nguyen

this analysis is pointless: Doyle is just genetically superior & that's it =/

Doyle can’t catch the poker trend anymore. Just like all the old poker players they play tight

Click-bait

People limp 10's and AK all the time in these deep stack MTTs. Making huge hands cheaply is the name of the game.

Enough about this AK fold being the best of all time people. Its a relatively easy fold for anybody who is a winning cardplayer. Doyle is value betting against all pocket pairs and lower aces. All of those hands he's hoping to get called by are never raising. Like if the guy had AJ or something hes never going to raise hes only gonna flat call. So once doyle bets turn and river when no draws are there and he gets raised, he's up against a slowplayed set which turned into a boat or A10 which makes complete sense. Not the hardest fold in the world guys and gals.

Seriously this is all round terrible play from the start that has put him in this position in the first place

Doyle's game just doesn't hold up these days. Only a fish plays AK that way

RIP D0YLE

I don’t think this qualifies as an incredible fold for nearly half his stack..

I feel like folding that there is definitely a losing play in the long run

jesus christ dude you talk way too much

Love all the analysis from those who see the hands, but incredible fold? no, never, pretty obvious.

Doyle won a virtual Sit-n-Go to win his WSOP titles. There were 10 people in the tournament. He's nothing special.

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