He is widely acknowledged to be one of the strongest pot-limit Omaha players in the world of poker, and Lyle Berman even wrote the section on that poker game for Doyle Brunson's Super System 2. His company is also the driving force behind the World Poker Tour.
Lyle Berman has won three events at the World Series Of Poker, including a limit Omaha bracelet. He has also won the pot-limit Omaha title at the now-defunct Super Bowl of Poker, Amarillo Slim Preston's attempt to compete with the WSOP. These days the greatest challenger to the World Series of Poker is the World Poker Tour, which is beginning to assume a similar level of prestige and is certainly the equal in terms of prize money. The WPT owes a great deal of that success to Lyle Berman, and his company Lakes Entertainment.
Berman believed in the World Poker Tour when it was still in its infancy and could find precious few backers. He threw his considerable financial clout behind the project and today the World Poker Tour is a media and poker phenomenon. His chapter on pot-limit Omaha in Brunson's sequel to the original bible of poker is a great read full of insight and sound advice. Lyle Berman is a regular in the biggest poker game in the world, which takes place sporadically in Las Vegas. Those seated include Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson, and Chip Reese. Berman has the money and the ability to match skills with the greatest poker players of all time.
