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’Vw*w*■ -aA Full BoatWins $340,009-1 Y? f AP) -~ A full boat, 10s over deuces turned out to be the3P5S *1? 5*lt;taesday a.s ?wW champion “Dolly” Doyle Brunson of : £8“J w?rth, Tex., successfully defended his title.said, ‘What the hell, this is the same hand I won with last year,’ ” .jftd the 293 pound Brunson after he had beaten Gary “Bones” Borland of ■las Vegas to claim his second straight title in the World Series of Poker.The victory, by virtue of a record number of entries in the eighth annual .,©ent hosted by Buuons Horseshoe Casino, was worth $340,000 to r-Brunson — $10,000 for each of the 34 entries in the seven-card “Hold Em”3game.C-Berijmd, who turned 27 on Monday, the day the championship game ; l^arted, got nothing for coming in second place. It was his second try forThird place went to surorislng Milo Jacobson, a retired nightclub ;-Owner from Sioux Falls, S.D., despite the fact that he had never before- slaved m a high stakes game, nor had he ever played “Hold Em.”- . Fourth place went to Brian “Sailor” Roberts, who won the world title two years ago.“Hold Em” is a variation of seven-card stud in which each player is dealt two cards down, and five cards are dealt face up. Each player mav use the up cards to make the best possible five-card hand.There are no wild cards in the “World Series. ”The end to the game, which lasted about 27 hours over three days, came swiftly after Berland ousted Jacobson with a straight.The former Los Angeles resident had $65,000 going into the head-to-head battle with the defending champion, and not many of the scores of rlngsiders gave him much of a chance to beat the old pro from the Lone Star State, who was sitting on a $275,000 stack of checks (chips).It was all over after the first hand, even though Berland made the first bold bet.Brunson thought on Borland’s bet for a moment, then decided to match it to see the last up card.The last up card was a deuce, and Brunson decided he had a winning hand because he won with 10s and deuces last year.“It just flashed before me,” Brunson explained. “You know, last year that same hand came up and 1 was lucky enough.”Brunson put out enough chips to force Berland to go “all-in,” and the hand that won it last year was good again this year. Berland wound up with a pair of eights and a pair ofiives.
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Nevada Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Fri, May 13, 1977
Page 3
Full Page
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Robert J.
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