Doyle Brunson是第一个两届世界系列扑克锦标赛主赛事冠军，他连续在1976年和1977年夺得世界系列扑克锦标赛冠军。Brunson一生的比赛收入高达6.1亿美元。

　　扑克联赛专员安妮公爵告诉美联社记者，Brunson是一位明智的受人尊敬的扑克手。

　　杰弗里波拉克公爵也发表声明，Brunson将被邀请参加奖金高达20,000美元的无限额德州扑克常规赛。

　　Brunson 在他的人生赛事中共盈利 6.1美元，其中包括自1976年以来的近3万美元和10块金牌。在世界系列扑克锦标锦赛事史上，他被赞誉为一个了不起的扑克手。

　　“在我心里荣誉不是最重要的，荣誉只是纪念我的扑克生涯的一种方式而已。”Brunson这样告诉美联社记者。

　　Brunson正在写一本名叫<<超级系统>>的扑克书籍，该书将介绍他的扑克生涯以及为德州扑克玩家提供扑克策略指导。一些相关人士预计，该书将会是德州扑克的权威指南书籍。Brunson也表示，他写书目的是引起玩家们对德州扑克游戏的重视，并帮助人们全面了解德州扑克游戏。

　　Brunson还表示，玩扑克是一种很刺激的娱乐方式，但扑克游戏的操作者是人，所以一个玩家必须要能充分理解人们玩扑克的目的和意义。

　　Brunson已经获得了一项为期两年联赛资格。该联赛的受邀条件很高，大约只有200名参加过世界顶级赛事的玩家受到邀请。该联赛负责人称，他们的联赛目的在于全球扑克玩家排名。

　　波拉克说，Brunson对扑克事业的贡献是永恒的，他是此次扑克联赛的精神领袖。

　　“Brunson的扑克生涯就是一部扑克现代史。”波拉克是这样赞誉Brunson的。

　　Brunson没有参加Epic之前举办的两个赛事。Brunson解释说是年纪越来越大的原因，但他表示他依然很喜欢玩现金游戏。

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　　Doyle Brunson gets lifetime Epic poker card

　　Poker professional Doyle Brunson competes during the first day of the World Series of Poker main event at the Rio Thursday, July 7, 2011. Brunson is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively - in 1976 and 1977.

　　Doyle Brunson's WSOP Party at Blush

　　Launch slideshow ? LAS VEGAS — A professional poker league that's trying to become the PGA Tour of poker is giving card icon Doyle Brunson its first lifetime player card, making him automatically eligible to play all future tournaments.

　　Epic Poker League Commissioner Annie Duke told The Associated Press that Brunson was a clear choice to be offered the lifetime invitation given his decades of success in the game and contributions to making it more popular and accessible.

　　Duke and Jeffrey Pollack, executive chairman of the company that owns Epic, say Brunson will be honored Wednesday at the start of a $20,000 regular season no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament — the third of four regular-season events for Epic in its inaugural run.

　　Brunson — who has $6.1 million in lifetime tournament earnings, including nearly $3 million and 10 gold bracelets since 1976 at the World Series of Poker — said he appreciates the honor as a token to remember struggles players made to make poker the game it is today.

　　"It's unnecessary but I guess it's nice to be remembered for what we went through to get poker to this point," Brunson told The Associated Press.

　　Brunson went on to write "Super System," a guide to poker strategy still referred to by many players as the definitive guide to playing Hold 'em and other variations of poker. Brunson said he wrote the book to try to attract players to the game and help them understand its fundamentals.

　　"It stimulated poker in a way that I don't think anything else could have," Brunson said. "The game of poker is about people, and you have to be able to understand people to play poker."

　　Brunson already qualified for a two-year player card under league eligibility rules, which limit invitations to roughly 200 of the top tournament players in the world. The eligibility requirements and global player rankings are weighed to emphasize recent success.

　　Pollack said Brunson's contributions to poker are timeless, making him the game's statesman.

　　"The modern history of poker is Doyle's life," Pollack said.

　　Brunson, who did not play in Epic's first two main events."As I'm getting older, these tournaments are getting too hard to come through," said Brunson. "It's probably not worth it to me anymore to really go on the tournament grind, so I don't plan on playing a whole lot of tournaments the rest of my life.

　　"I much prefer to play cash games," he said.