Eskandani shared a story regarding Brunson’s character. “We didn’t lose a legend, we lost the legend,” Eskandani told the assemblage. Next up was PokerGO President Mori Eskandani, another long-time friend of Brunson’s. Some of the wells came to be named after famous poker people, so people were getting water from a Brunson Well or a Binion Well, or even a Tomko Well, even though Tomko had nothing to do with it. Tomko also detailed how Doyle and his wife, Louise, helped build clean-water wells in Africa at a funding cost of $1,500 each. All the losers are still sitting there waiting for us.’ This lasted for a pretty long time, a couple of years.” One of the things I remember about the six o’clock-to-seven o’clock study every day, we would get up from the table to go to the Bible study, come back at seven o’clock. Well, we started off with about 10 or 20. Tomko said, “He would spend “$5,000 to $10,000 a day bringing these famous preachers in, them in a nice hotel to have Bible studies. Tomko, like Brunson, comes from a deeply religious background, and he shared the tale of how Brunson got permission from Jack Binion to run Bible-study groups for poker players. First to speak in Brunson’s honor was his longtime poker and golf friend Dewey Tomko.

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