Doyle Brunson was referring to no-limit hold’em as the ‘Cadillac of poker’ over 30 years ago, and summarised a winning strategy for the game in his seminal book Super System. However, Brunson wasn’t talking about the ‘new’ tournament format of no-limit hold’em played today, where the average stack might only be anywhere between 20-30 big blinds and the money often goes in before or on the flop.

What he was talking about was a game played with enormous amounts of money on the table relative to the blinds, where a player could be broken or put to a huge test all in one hand.