The lineup was a real who’s who of poker royalty: Doyle Brunson, Jack “Treetop” Strauss, Puggy Pearson, Bobby Baldwin, and eventually Chip Reese. They played with blinds of $1,000 and $2,000, and the game ran around the clock. The game was hosted by two of the Dunes’ owners, Sid Wyman and Major Riddle, who both loved to play poker and were two of the wealthiest men in the city.
From 1975 until 1979, the biggest game in all of Las Vegas, and possibly all of America, was the No Limit Deuce-to-Seven game at the Dunes.
