Bryn Kenney Loses $250k Super High-Roller in Brunson Jersey to 10-2

Last week, I made this post after the Knicks went up in the NBA Finals, explaining why I thought Game 5 was a good date to end the series. New York did end up winning the series 4-1:

That post focused on the intriguing numerical synchronicities Knicks star Jalen Brunson has to Texas hold’em legend Doyle Brunson, who was the face of the game amidst its explosion in popularity in the 2000’s.

I connected the Finals to this year’s World Series of Poker, which began just a couple of days earlier. While the World Series is best-known for its $10,000 Main Event, the tournament with the highest buy-in is actually the $250,000 Super High-Roller, which saw 56 entrants (counting rebuys).

The event ended with the Final Table on Day 3. After a few hours, the field was down to a heads-up battle between Adrian Mateos, Spain’s all-time live earnings leader, and Bryn Kenney, the all-time leader from any country.

Intriguingly, Kenney was wearing a Brunson jersey for the entirety of the last day. After losing his initial chip advantage, Bryn found himself with top pair after his pre-flop raise. Unforunately for him, his opponent had a better holding.

The two men re-raised each other until all the chips were in the pot, and Kenney grimaced as his opponent turned over a Ten-Deuce:

Ten-Deuce is the same hand that Doyle Brunson won back-to-back World Series Main Event championships with:

After getting knocked out by the Ten-Deuce, Kenney walked away with the second-place purse of $2.777 million when rounded to the nearest thousand:

277 is the 59th Prime number

It’s worth mentioning that earlier in the game, fifth-place finisher Jason Koon bluffed Kenney out of a large sidepot while holding a Ten-Deuce. Click this link to see the clip.

“Texas Dolly”

Doyle’s nickname was Texas Dolly, which is a Perfect Supermatch across all four base ciphers with Bryn Kenney.

The number Ninety-nine sums to 1128 when spelled out.

So what am I saying? Does this mean the World Series of Poker is RIGGED?

No. I’m much more inclined to believe something else is happening. After all, a majority of people once believed that playing card games was sinful, as doing so was dipping your hand into the spiritual realms.

While I personally don’t see anything wrong with a good card game among friends, I don’t think they were entirely wrong, either.