Todd Brunson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American poker player
Date of Birth: 07-Aug-1969
Place of Birth: El Paso, Texas, United States
Profession: poker player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Todd Brunson
- Todd Alan Brunson (born August 7, 1969) is an American professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.
- Doyle Brunson did not teach Todd how to play; it was not until he was studying law at Texas Tech University that he learned how to play on his own.
- Before his senior year, he dropped out of school to turn professional.Most of Brunson's years as a poker player have been spent playing cash games.
- He plays at the Bellagio in some of their biggest cash games.
- Brunson won a bracelet in Omaha High-Low at the 2005 World Series of Poker, making the Brunsons the first father-son combination to each win bracelets at the World Series.
- Todd Brunson also contributed to his father's book, Super System 2, the 2005 sequel to Doyle Brunson's poker book Super/System, writing the Seven Card Stud High Low Eight or Better section. Brunson's nickname "Darkhorse" comes from a tournament he played early in his career, where he was reckoned to be a huge underdog, but outlasted the likes of poker legend Chip Reese. Brunson competed in the Poker Superstars 2 Grand Final against Johnny Chan. In 2006, Brunson competed in the Poker Superstars 3 Grand Final against Antonio Esfandiari and defeated him by winning the first three matches in a best three out of five heads-up format.
- In the third round, he was down to 170,000 chips against 3,830,000 chips owned by Esfandiari and eventually won by getting more than five double ups.
- Brunson took home the $400,000 first prize In 2006, Brunson competed in the Poker Superstars 2 quarter-finalists freeroll and took home the $500,000 first prize after defeating Ted Forrest in the final heads-up confrontation. Brunson won over $13.5 million in a two-day span in a heads-up, $50,000-$100,000 limit hold-em game, as chronicled in the 2005 book, The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King. Brunson has also competed in the Ultimate Poker Challenge series.
- He has also appeared in the GSN series High Stakes Poker. In 2009, Brunson made a guest appearance on one of the final episodes of the series Stargate Atlantis (#519 "Vegas"), during a poker game set in Las Vegas.As of January 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,000,000.
- His 47 cashes as the WSOP account for $1,507,822 of those winnings.
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