Doyle Brunson Hates the Poker-Based Game Shows

From Doyle Brunson's blog:

No disrespect intended, but these poker shows are awful. Full Tilt’s “Face the Ace” and Poker Stars “Million Dollar Challenge” are so bad, it’s embarrassing. There is no skill involved in either show and I can’t imagine getting an audience that will watch the shows. As I travel around, the High Stakes cash games are the ones all the fans talk about and I agree with them that they are by far the most interesting.

Doyle has said he's a poker purist, and I am too. One of my favorite Doyle quotes was when he said, while playing a tournament on Poker After Dark, that he preferred real poker (by which he meant cash games) to tournaments. On a different episode of that show Patrik Antonius also said he preferred real poker. One of my favorite editorials, The High Stakes Poker Episode That Only Showed Seven Hands, was also mostly composed of Doyle quotes.

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