For him, losing those $6 million has been the most outrageous of them all. Texas Dolly has collected the highest stakes cash games and biggest tournament victories, as well as a few clashes with his fellow greats. I lost 6 million at the WSOP that year, courtesy of my best bud Chip Reese,” wrote Brunson in a tweet. I had a serious operation the year I lost. He has plenty of stories that he has lived across the years in which he played professional poker like shootings, robberies, deaths and more. He said that he once lost $6 million to Chip Reese during a game in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), which was his only losing year out of the 65 years he spent at poker tables. Texas Dolly admits to having lost a fortune during a deep WSOP run years agoĪ few weeks after sharing the conditions in which he sold his online poker site, Doyle’s Room, and the offer he rejected before, retired poker legend Doyle Brunson has shared another anecdote with his fans.