“It seemed like I couldn’t win no matter what I did.” “I started losing and the losses kept coming,” he noted in his autobiography, The Godfather of Poker. He’d always believed a player loses many of his skills after age 50. After a few months, he’d lost $6 million and considered retirement. On top of some bad luck, Brunson didn’t feel he was playing well. With the game’s popularity exploding around the country, the 71-year-old Texan worried his skills might be eroding at a time when his chances of major financial scores were real possibilities. He’d been on a streak of bad luck and believed it might be his first losing year after 50 years of playing poker for a living. In August 2004, Doyle Brunson viewed himself as anything but a legend.
