In the hand presented above Todd combined both of the cornerstones of tight aggressive play - he made a somewhat loose preflop call in order to play a hand against a perceived recreational player and he showed up with the goods at the end of the hand. Given how Brunson managed to thrive in the context of difficult Vegas cash games it's pretty safe to assume that he has this whole 'tight aggressive' thing figured out. Playing a solid tight-aggressive poker is also a lot more difficult in tough environments where other players try to punish us for conservative hand selection with frequent steals. When we combine that with increasing the frequency of the spots that we find ourselves with against the recreational players, we have a winning formula on our hands. Making sure that your ranges are stronger than the ranges of your opponents in important spots, was always a great strategy for winning at a poker table. There's certainly nothing wrong with that. Todd Brunson has a reputation of being a rather tight player. Given the nature of poker, every talented youngster can go on a short heater but the ability to fend off variance for decades is what truly deserves our praise and that's why we're going to take a closer look at Todd Brunson's game.

We can safely assume that his cash game results are far more impressive.Īccording to a 2005 book 'The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King' Brunson won over $13.5 million in a two-day span playing heads-up, $50,000/$100,000 limit hold-em game. Even still, he managed to win one WSOP event and earn more than $4,000,000 in tournament winnings. Todd's accomplishments are also relatively easy to overlook given how he's primarily a live cash game player. That being said, Brunson still managed to have a long and successful career with very little help from his more famous father. Todd Brunson isn't the most exciting player in poker history, he's not the most accomplished and the fact that his dad is practically the godfather of the game isn't doing Todd any favors as far his popularity is concerned.

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