Is Doyle Brunson Returning to the WSOP?

The 83-year-old 10-times bracelet winner poker legend expressed his intention on Twitter to sit down at a WSOP table again after four years. 

Doyle Brunson hasn't entered a WSOP tournament since 2013, when he finished in 409th place in the 6352-player field at the Main Event, cashing $28,000. Since then he said multiple times that the long tournament sessions are too tiring for his age but he remained active in the Las Vegas high stakes cash games.

Recently, however, he has been tweeting a lot about his possible return to WSOP this year. The whole thing started with a reply to fellow high stakes poker pro, the Taiwanese Maria Ho, which Brunson ended with "hope you are allowed to say hello to me at WSOP".  

Chip Reese and I used to do that all the time. We would holler out "food is here guys". Hope you are allowed to say hello to me at WSOP. https://t.co/izoPZpT5gT [3]

— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) 2017. május 16. [4]

With that the speculations commenced and soon afterwards Brunson himself confirmed that he is in fact considering to play at the WSOP again, later tweeting "I actually am thinking about playing all the 10k events. Depends on my wife's health issues" [5]. There are fifteen $10K buy-in events on the 2017 WSOP schedule, including the Main Event. 

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Doyle Brunson was the first to defend the WSOP ME title: he won the most prestigious poker tournament in the world back-to-back in 1976 and 1977. He won a total of 10 bracelets, which means he's currently tied at second place with Johnny Chan and Phil Ivey on the all time bracelet-winning list, behind Phil Hellmuth's 14. His life time live poker earnings are over $6 million - 36 times he added to that impressive sum by finishing in the money at a WSOP event, and it seems he'll have the chance to do just that once again this summer.