Jen Harman on Andy Beal, a Broke Corporation, and Doyle Brunson's Phone Call

On The Table 1 Podcast, Jennifer Harman recalls Andy Beal winning about $5 million and Doyle Brunson having $2 million sent to Bellagio in 20 minutes.

Clip: The Table 1 Podcast, starting at the used segment. The same clip is also posted as a YouTube Short and a Facebook Reel.

Quick answer: On The Table 1 Podcast, Jennifer Harman, a 2015 Poker Hall of Fame inductee, tells a story from the Andy Beal games against the Corporation. "Andy got bored at 10 20," she says, "so, then we kicked it up to 20 40." She was "at the Forum" when she got a call that "we're losing." "By the time I got from the Forum to the Bellagio, we were broke. So, he had won about 5 million." In her account, Beal wanted to keep playing Doyle Brunson, Brunson had $2 million delivered to the Bellagio "within 20 minutes," they played "for like 20 minutes," and Beal "was tired and he quit." Documented accounts of the 2001–2004 Bellagio series place those heads-up limit hold'em games at stakes that started at $10,000/$20,000 and later reached $100,000/$200,000. They do not independently confirm this particular phone call or the 20-minute session.

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"Andy got bored at 10 20"

"And then Andy got bored at 10 20. So, then we kicked it up to 20 40." She does not say "thousand" in the used clip. In published accounts of the Beal-Corporation matches, those figures are $10,000/$20,000 and $20,000/$40,000 limit hold'em. A 2005 AV Club review of Michael Craig's book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King says the series ran from 2001 to 2004 at the Bellagio, with blinds starting at $10,000 and $20,000 and later topping out at $100,000 and $200,000, and names Harman among the pros, alongside Doyle Brunson. A 2024 Poker.org recap of the same book places early heads-up sessions at stakes up to $20,000/$40,000. A later Card Player report covers 2006 sessions at the Wynn; that is a different chapter, and it is not what she is describing here.

She was not at the table when the call came. "And I'm at the Forum. And they called me and said that um we're losing. I said, Okay, I'll be over." The Short does not say which Forum she means, and this article does not guess.

"We were broke"

"By the time I got from the Forum to the Bellagio, we were broke. So, he had won about 5 million. Nobody had any money."

That "he" is Beal, in her telling. She does not say on which date this happened, or how the $5 million was counted. D Magazine, writing in December 2004, separately reported that Beal "did reportedly deliver a $5 million blow" in a different session, involving Johnny Chan. Those are not the same story.

The phone call, in her account

"Andy wanted to play Doyle," she says. "And Doyle's like, Congratulations, you won. We're broke. We don't have any money." Beal's reply, as she tells it: "No, I want to play." Brunson repeats that they cannot, "We don't have any money."

"Andy kept pushing it and pushing it. And Doyle said, Okay. And he makes a phone call and has $2 million delivered to the Bellagio within 20 minutes. And Doyle played him. And he played for like 20 minutes and Andy was tired and he quit. But now we have chips. We can play a poker game."

A voice on the podcast, after she finishes, says, "Thank you, Doyle."

The used clip ends there. It does not say who won that 20-minute stretch, or what happened once they had chips again. The $2 million delivery, and the 20-minute session, are presented here only as Harman's account, not as independently documented fact.

FAQ

What stakes is Jennifer Harman talking about?

In the Short she says "10 20" and "20 40," without the word "thousand." Published accounts of the 2001–2004 Beal-Corporation games at the Bellagio, including an AV Club review of Michael Craig's book and a Poker.org recap of it, describe heads-up limit hold'em that started at $10,000/$20,000 and included $20,000/$40,000, later reaching as high as $100,000/$200,000.

What does she say happened when she arrived?

She says that by the time she got from "the Forum" to the Bellagio, "we were broke," and that Beal "had won about 5 million."

Is the Doyle Brunson phone-call story in Michael Craig's book?

This article does not claim that it is. The book and contemporaneous reporting document the Bellagio series, the Corporation, and the stakes. The $2 million delivery "within 20 minutes," and the 20-minute session that ended when Beal "was tired and he quit," are presented here only as Harman's account.

Who is Jennifer Harman?

PokerNews and WSOP.com identify her as a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a 2015 Poker Hall of Fame inductee. On the podcast she goes by Jen Harman.