Doyle Brunson could have been the victim of an armed robbery this week – but the criminals got the wrong house

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.

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.