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after Glasgow?

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Grimsby.

None, but plenty before  :D

I'm surprised as anybody but I'm just passing on what I read in Hellmuths 'Play poker like the Glaswegians'.

It may be an urban myth, but apparently in the days when *the* game was five card stud, Glasgow players were considered to be among the best in the world and there was an attempt to arrange a challenge match with LV players. 

I think that the negotiations failed when no agreement could be reached on the type of marked cards to be used.

According to Ladbrokes players from Leeds are the most succesful.

Oh and I'm from Nottingham by the way in case you think I'm biased.

and wasn't Glasgow quite high up in that survey?

 rotflmfao Write a book! Or a blog!

Can't remember exactly, I think Edinbugh was actually in the top 3?

Leeds, jeez thats suprising I do my best to get them off number 1 spot then. Must try harder!

Shrewsbury


Everyone knows that!

bolton of course

Birmingham boasts the order of merit winner and several others in the recent past........

current european number one is actually from blackburn (next to bolton!!!)

Although from Manchester i have to say that the standard of play at Blackpool was second to none for live tournaments. I believe Julian Gardner was a regular there before i began to frequent there and whilst i was there you could see the likes of John Falconer, Simon Nowab, Ash Hussain, Dave Clayton, Ali Mallu and even Ariston...... ;) The standard of poker was always extremely high even for a £10 rebuy on a friday/saturday night.

not forgeting Womble, howard plant, gareth jones, simon zach, mullah the list goes on and on. Yeh the standard at blackpool is probably the highest of any casino in the UK

good question
of-course cardiff

Heartlepool? (that's what it siad in my cracker anyway)

Cambridge of course !!  ;scarymoment; no bitchin now !! lol

Grimsby

Thats two votes now!!!!

Im gonna go with PETERBOROUGH

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch by a country mile

No fair, we don't have 'cities' in Cornwall.

Northamptonshire - home of Paul King, Dingdell and one of the finalists for the £1 million Ladbrookes.

russ you just ruined bpool in one easy list lolo

and me!!!!!!! ;)

just to add a few more names, womble,dave gardiner, howard plant, mulla, simon rimmer, Zach, paperboy, gareth jones, nice dave, alistar finlay,riggy, mike the apache, and lots more very though tournie players

Leeds, I can't stop laughing

It is definitely Northampton now a N'tn man won the Ladbrookes 1.2 million.  ;cheerleader;

bump

leeds then notts ldo.

There is a really interesting page on ptr that shows the most winningest, yes it is a word, countries and biggest losing countries.

LEEDS!

It's not even close! But then I am super biased :)

If anyone from anywhere wants to do a team challenge, then brinnnnggg it!

Leeds and its not close imo :D

a few forgotton names in the first pages. I have burnley john as my stars avatar wonder what he's up to thesedays

Just a few!

Of the list, Ali Mallu seems the only one still playing most of the circuit events.

Ali Mallu gets a lot of stick but his record in small, local comps is un-rivaled anywhere.

£20rebuys and £50-£100 freezeouts he is a colossus of those structures.

Someone told me he brought a long haired souvenir back from Asia, dunno if its true or not  8)

As a side note first time I ever played poker in Blackpool at that little casino, he helped me out, always remembered him for that  :)

He took a young kid to pieces on Saturday in DTD, absolutely murdered the poor lad, who was a touch arrogant, & thought he could play back at Mallu, all the sighs, head shakes, & "you are so lucky" blather.

Technically, I would imagine the lads consider him to be crap, but he's still a force, & a right handful at the Table, as is Gosney.* 

* Bet I get accused of trolling now.

Clearly it's Lincoln,

Me and Paul m'fkin Ho!

There is another, too.

A lad called Ben Nuttall lives in Lincoln, too. He is, like you, a SNG specialist, though on a smaller scale, I guess. Check out his Sharkscope graph. ("Nutter5932, Sky Poker All Games"). A thing of beauty. He has to be at school during the day, too, he's only 7.

John was a legend don't think I ever saw him without a smile on his face, last time I saw him was probably over 3 years ago in dtd

Alan McLean is another that probably gets stick and when I first started playing everyone used to say he plays like a nutter, nowadays a lot of young gun starting out play like he did all those years ago.

What happened to Simon Nowab?

Did he leave DTD on bad terms?

Funnily enough, I was wondering the same last night after I saw Burnley John mentioned.

Leeds then Notts imo. No other city even comes close imo..... ;whistle;

Why do you want to know where the best are ?
Get yourself down to Southampton to play the WORST  ! imo  : )

yh defo. people go on about how terrible he is, but his results are impressive, in the hendon mobbed results he's prolly a little over break-even because of his volume but in the £20-£50rebuys and £50-£200 local comps he'll be a monster monster winner imo, he knows how to play those structures so well.

I've seen him put more people into coffins than anyone else since i been playing poker, same with Lawrence tbh, everyone thinks because neither of these two can triple range merge or have a true graps of the optimal c-betting frequency they aren't capable of playing on a high level but they both are.

Interesting, didn't know of him. I'm 27 in 2 weeks Tikay, when can I escape the school jokes ;)

You really are a boy with the mind of an old man, you do know that you are not supposed to say daft things like that, don't you? You'd get ripped to shreds on 2+2, swimming against the tide is not encouraged.

Not until you have been on the Show with me again, so I can give you some grief. When is your next 865 appearance, has it been agreed yet?

PS - Bring ID.

EDIT - I have just checked - you are on the Show on February 21st - a fortnight yesterday - with me. ;)

Newcastle vs Leeds. Bring it.....

Best poker players?

Belper - ainec.

Lets do thissssssssss.

isn't London the obvious answer as lots of good players move there

Rochdale obv

Surely he is swimming with the tide when he agrees?  There was another thread here a few months ago which turned into queue of people saying how good he was.

Played at his table just once, he looked lolbad.  He was on my direct right, which I realise makes a big difference with players like him.  I think I'd prefer to keep him there in future too!

Doobs, an old man with the mind of a boy obv

Think you will find their finest now reside in leeds

You can buy out now if you like :P

U better check your birth certifiate kid

call

Pretty sure I'm getting the school jokes till I'm about 35

Yep, 20 more years of school jokes for you Dan ;)

It's an intresting one and a question that can never be answered.

You have to remember that a lot of people who play in certain cities are actually from different cities.

I am from Sheffield and a lot come from around Yorkshire to play the £50r and £20r every week, so you don't even know if the players that you personally rate are actually from Sheffield. There are a few players that I rate around Sheffield, but I firmly believe they are a lot better poker players from elsewhere.

:D

Haha, be incred if it happened. Pretty sure even the power of your Micky Mouse hoodies couldn't stop us.

The best players are all living or dossing with those living in Leeds ATM ainec. But as they are the best they spend most of the time living out of suit cases any way

Come back when you can put a proper team together boys ;)

That thread I was there saying he was good. he isn't "so good" it's just a pretty simple element of poker no-1 can grasp really...

There are two types of pro poker players. 1) guys who spend all there time learning how to be sick at poker, and 2) guys who spend all there time learning how to win.

It's not the same thing.

listen maaaaate.

Me and Mark Goodwin vs you and your young kids with too much money, let's do it.

go on then :D, should put chinese poker in there :)

railtards brother darren lives in lincoln also

The real answer to this question is that it probably was interesting until a couple of years ago, but now there is only one answer, Leeds, and it's not even AINEC.

I do this quite often, normally realise before I post though  ;)

I think it should be where your born not where you currently live, if I moved I'd still want to represent the toon innit.

but we've all improved as a rsult of living/playing together, so it's due to the place ive lived not where i'm born

You just solved poker dave

Big +1. You are the man ATM ainec

Leeds4win obv as we have JStrummer :)

+ this guy  :hello: and CraigyBetts

Sometimes you just don't see it...

What happened to tightpaulfolds?

did he change his name to jake and move to leeds?

Obv London

but hasn't Dave Shallow moved to Brighton?

Well in that case Brighton would be 2nd to Leeds

Think he is still Essex!!

fyp

Yes Dave! Now that you've figured it all out, get yourself up to Sorel's hotel room for a game of chinese, that's where all the real pros are.

haha. excellent !!

*shakes fist*