DoylesRoom Poker Room Review

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There may be nothing else in the whole world that epitomizes the concept of old school meeting new school better than the fact that Doyle Brunson has his own online poker site. “Texas Dolly” bridged the gap between the road gamblers of the pre-WSOP days and the information superhighway gamblers of the 21st century when he unveiled DoylesRoom in 2004, and though the site briefly dropped out of the U.S. market in ’06, it came back in ’07 and has quickly rebuilt itself into one of the online poker world’s largest and most trusted sites.

DoylesRoom is decidedly less frilly than some of the other sites, instead going for more of an understated, down-to-business look and feel. From the veteran pros who endorse it—Brunson, his son Todd, Mike Caro, and Hoyt Corkins—to the wood-grain look of the tables, it’s very much a case of substance over style. The function buttons are all conveniently placed and easy to use, plenty of stats are available, and you have three options for table sizes.

The games offered at DoylesRoom include Hold ’Em, Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo, Seven-Card Stud, Five-Card Stud, and the hard-to-find Five-Card Draw. Full-table, short-handed, and heads-up tables are all available for both cash games and sit-n-gos, and tournaments are particularly popular, accounting for about 80% of the site’s traffic. Typically, DoylesRoom runs about $1-million worth of tournaments per week, including the weekly bounty tournament in which Doyle, Todd, Caro, and Corkins regularly play.

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Brunson is often referred to as “The Godfather of Poker,” and like that other “Godfather,” his Web site makes you quite a few offers you can’t refuse. The promotions include sign-up bonuses, a VIP program, and a bad beat jackpot that pays out whenever you quad eights or better loses in a ring game. Also, the site is compatible with outside data tracking programs, and you can learn from the man who wrote the book on poker (literally) with the online Doyle Brunson poker school.

Super/System changed the way the game was played, and when the Internet took it to the next level, Brunson couldn’t help but get involved. Maybe on paper, “Doyle Brunson” and “online poker” seem an odd fit. But in actuality, old school and new school go together perfectly.