Poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson is blasting Party Gaming Ltd. co-founder Anurag Dikshit for kowtowing to the U.S. government.

Dikshit last week agreed to pay a $300 million fine to the Feds for illegally facilitating online gambling in the U.S. Party Gaming Ltd. is the parent company of online poker room Party Poker (www.partypoker.com), which used to service the U.S. but no longer does.

“One thing for sure, Anurag Dikshit is appropriately named,” Brunson wrote this week on his blog at Doyle’s Room (www.doylesroom.com).

“Dikshit was one of the owners of Party Poker and became a multi-billionaire when Party went public,” Brunson continued. “It looks like he would feel a sense of obligation to online poker, the industry that made him a rich man.

“Instead, he folded up like an accordion and pled guilty to breaking some kind of mystery law and is paying a 300 million dollar fine and a possible 2-year jail term.

“It certainly created some ill will from the other online poker sites. I personally can’t imagine what was going through his mind when he made his decision.”

So why is Brunson dumping on Dikshit?

It’s simple.

Brunson has his own online poker room–Doyle’s Room–which is a competitor of Party Poker.

Brunson doesn’t want to see ANY online poker room agree to pay a fine to the Feds.

It’s an admittance of doing something wrong, which means Brunson and his room are also doing something wrong.

In addition, Brunson is rich, but not that rich.

He’s not a billionaire like Dikshit.

He couldn’t pay $300 million out of his cookie jar.

It sounds like the 75-year-old Brunson is just a tad bit worried that maybe he might get popped by Uncle Sam.

If that’s the case, ol’ Texas Dolly ought to get out of the online poker biz, instead of ripping those who are in it.

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