Todd Brunson

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**Todd Brunson**
Todd Brunson in the Ultimate Poker Challenge
Nickname(s)	Darkhorse
Hometown	Las Vegas, Nevada
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	1
Money finishes	14
Highest ITM main event finish	13, 1992
World Poker Tour
Titles	0
Final tables	0
Money Finishes	4

Todd Alijondro "Darkhorse" Brunson (born August 7, 1969) is an American professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.

Most people assume that with a father like Doyle Brunson, Todd must have grown up playing poker. He actually didn't learn to play until college and then learned on his own and decided to give up college to go pro.

Most of his years as a poker player have been spent playing cash games. He's a familiar face along with his father at the Bellagio in some of their biggest cash games. In the past few years he's gotten into more tournament play.

Todd has won a bracelet in Omaha High Low at the 2005 World Series of Poker, making the Brunsons the first father-son combination to each win bracelets at the World Series. Todd Brunson also contributed to his father's book, Super System 2 (The 2005 sequel to Doyle Brunson's poker book Super/System), writing the Seven Card Stud High Low Eight or Better section.

His nickname "Darkhorse" comes from a tournament he played early in his career, where he was reckoned to be a huge underdog, but outlasted the likes of Chip Reese.

He competed in the Poker Superstars 2 Grand Final against Johnny Chan.

In 2006, he competed in the Poker Superstars 3 Grand Final against Antonio Esfandiari and defeated him by winning the first three matches in a best three out of five heads-up format. Brunson took home the $400,000 first prize

In 2006, he competed in the Poker Superstars 2 quarter-finalists freeroll and took home the $500,000 first prize after defeating Ted Forrest in the final heads-up confrontation.

He is known for having won over $13.5 million in a two day span in a heads-up, $50,000-$100,000 limit hold-em game.^{[citation needed]}

Todd has also competed in the Ultimate Poker Challenge series. He is currently appearing in the GSN series High Stakes Poker.

As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000.