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When Mark Rawden wrote CinemaBlend’s article on “The 100 Most Likely People to Die in 2009” he listed poker legend and owner of the poker room DoylesRoom.com, Doyle Brunson on 16th place and gave him a 10% chance of dying from obesity during 2009.

Brunson replied in his blog the day after the article was released and wanted to track down the “clown” that wrote the article and make a prop bet with him.

Doyle Brunson wrote the following statement in his blog:

“He said obesity would cause my death. He should have seen me 5 years ago when I was 130 lbs heavier. Anyway, he said it was a 10% chance I would die. I would like to lay 10-1 for any amount if anybody knows this joker”

It has now been made official that Mack Rawden makes a bet of $1000 that Doyle Brunson will die in 2009. In the case of Brunsons death one of his freinds will step in and pay Rawden his well deserved $10 000.

Both parties have agreed to donating all of the winnings to the American Cancer Society.

DoylesRoom.com, a branch of the Microgaming Network, has announced the switching of all its players to the Cake Poker Network. This is because of the recent partnership with Cake Poker (a major poker network just after UIGEA). The movement of players to the network of cake exhibits Doyles’ commitment to the cause of serving the American players.

This is what Doyle Brunson, the owner, had to say about the new partnership ‘We wanted to offer our players a rewarding place to play and the liquidity and integrity associated with the Cake Poker Network made this an easy choice for our new partnership”.

The partnership and the movement of players became urgent because Microgaming has clearly stated about its plans to move away from the U.S. market. On the other hand, it is a complete win-win situation for Cake poker to partner with the 10 time winner of the World Series Poker bracelet. Cake Poker network realizes the value of having the godfather of poker Mr. Doyle Brunson aboard.

This is what Cake Poker Network had to say in its official statement regarding the partnership “Having the legend of poker choose our network to call home means a lot to us. We look forward to welcoming all of the DoylesRoom players and are excited to be able to offer all of our network players a chance to rub elbows with Doyle Brunson through some industry exclusive promotions and contests we will be launching in the next few months”.

The switching will foster into a good change for the players of DoylesRoom as they can expect higher network liquidity and thus bigger guaranteed tournaments. The change will also result into a better customer service, security and operations.

DoylesRoom has announced to all its existing and new players to join the $5000 Launch Party Freeroll on this Sunday at 5 pm ET. The players can then take part in the $100,000 Guaranteed Tournament that has a $150 + $12 buy-in. Log on to the DoylesRoom.com to know more.