[Mr. Orange]

If this is indeed "poker by the book" your talking about here's a few things your missing:

1) 4 hands in a row on TV is not nessarily 4 hands in a row in real life.
2) This was a WPT invite only event. While these may be exciting to watch, there not a important as winning a WPT Title. These events in essense, are 6 player satelites for the WPT championship. This event was filmed in Dec., Brunson had already won a seat to WPT championship by winning the Legends of poker, 2 months earlier so he really was playing for no reason than to play. He probably wanted to go home at this point.