Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Apparently Targeted for Home Robbery
In a series of tweets on Friday afternoon, poker legend Doyle Brunson claimed that the Las Vegas Metro Police Department informed him of an armed robbery in his neighborhood and that he may have been the initial target of the robbers.
Brunson, a ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, is known to carry a handgun with him when travelling to and from poker games and confesses he’s always on the lookout when he gets back from a cash game session in Las Vegas even though he carries no cash with him.
It appears the would-be thieves were either given the wrong address or went to the wrong home and Brunson was unharmed thought another man was robbed.
A police officer just left my house. There was a robbery a few doors from my house last night. the robber told the guy he knew he was
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 12, 2016
a poker player and got him in his garage. that was probably meant for me. Don’t these idiots know we leave our money at the casinos where
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 12, 2016
we play? He told the victim his cut was supposed to be 700,000. WARNING…I carry a pistol with me at all times. When I come home I get out
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 12, 2016
The robber got about $500 from his victim and said he was going to kill his informants for giving him the wrong house.
— Doyle Brunson (@TexDolly) August 12, 2016
This is not the first time that Brunson was targeted at his home by armed robbers. In 1998 two men wearing masked confronted Brunson in his driveway before handcuffing him to his wife Louise and pistol-whipped Brunson. The robbers left with $4,000 in cash and $80,000 in Binion’s Horseshoe casino, part of the prize money Brunson earned while winning his eighth career WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 Razz event.