Poker pro Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson is mad.

At Barack Obama, of all people.

Why?

For picking Joe Biden as his running mate.

Because?

Because, Brunson fumes, Biden is a hothead and a potential screw-up.

Writing on his web log or “blog”–his online diary–at www.doylesroom.com, Brunson commented last Friday:

“I’ve been watching the news all afternoon and it looks like Joe Biden is going to be Obama’s running mate. I think it is a bad choice because Biden is hot headed and might screw up royally. I think Hillary would have cinched the election if he had picked her. But, what do I know, I was a George W. man. If McCain picks Romney as his running mate, all the gamblers had better vote for Obama.”

Why should “all the gamblers” vote for Obama?

Brunson doesn’t say.

He also doesn’t say how Biden “might” screw up–just that he would do it “royally.”

In addition, he doesn’t explain why Hillary Clinton would have been a better running mate for Obama.

Or why he was “a George W. man.”

Brunson doesn’t even say who he is going to vote for.

As a poker player, Brunson is one of the best, if not the best, in the world.

But as a political pundit, he’s horrible.

Yo, Doyle!

Just because you won 10 gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker, it doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about in any venue other than poker.

Especially politics.

As you yourself wrote on your blog, “What do I know?”

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)