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Right so i was in the casino last night and i picked up pokerpro magazine, i don't know why i never read them but it had a pic of skalie on the front so i thought i would read what he has to say.

In there they have what appears to be a regular "pro's corner" section, this months 'pro' and i can't believe they used that word is none other than regular circuit donkey Dave Smith.

I ask you all to go out and read his Q+A and post your favourite nugget of information, my fave is his reply to a question about pot odds:

Don't worry about pot odds - they really don't matter. If you call without proper pot odds and lose, you go home without the money. If you call because this time you have the pot odds and lose, you still go home. The ones that spout about what you did only want you out anyways.

I shit you not.

yeah but hes got a good hat

To be fair, he has done quite well on this single philosophy. I hate having Dave Smith on my immediate left, you can steal his blind once and only once. I'd love to see him Neville Southall his way to a Bracelet.

When is his book coming out?  ;whistle; ;whistle;

He must win loads in the cash games lol

I must admit when I first read said article I thought he was taking the piss.

Now I'm not so sure. Plenty of people do play that way and just because he has been sucessful doesn't mean he isn't one of them.

His thoughts on the article would be interesting. I've never played with him so I'm not qualified to comment really but in my experience much of what you read in the media should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Maybe he was being ironic.

I saw Dave recently and he had a new hat, very nice it was to.  :)

When are you going to be in it Flushy? Actually just off to email them, it would really wind him up to see me there. As it did at DTD when I showed Kev the poker mag with an interview with me in it.  :D

The images below are from an article in today's MyFreeSport mag which is handed out at Tube stations - part of their WSOP preview.

Also, they have some tips on how to play poker. Who from? Which top poker pro have they selected?

Steve Davis, the snooker player.

Next week, Maria Sharapova gives advice to budding boxers and Wayne Rooney helps all those who want to be the next Garry Kasparov.

Maria Sharapova can give me advice on whatever she wants

Liv recently cashed in the WSOP.  ;)

Twice, in fact.

Could she see the hole cards?

oooooooo.  but.... rotflmfao

It begs an interesting question though.  The majority of posters on this forum would have a good shot of making the money in a WSOP event, given the opportunity - a sponsorship deal being the obvious. 

What's more important though, integrity or opportunity.  Honestly now - if UB or Absolute called you up offering to buy you in to some WSOP events in exchange for wearing their clothing (and knowing it would probably be the only opportunity you'd get to play these), how many would take it?  I wouldn't.

a lot of people would say that they wouldn't take it, safe in the knowledge that it's not going to happened so they can't be proved wrong.

most however would ,in reality, take the chance in a heartbeat imo

i would

+1

I 'm not trying to mock, but I don't fully understand why being sponsored and wearing branded garb at an event is a bad thing?

Would be interested to here the case against.

nothing wrong with it - depends on who the sponsor is though.

I disagree, and I hope you're wrong - don't shatter my illusions of mankind!

I'd do a devilfish and ask the sponsors to make me a badge that I could put on my own clothing. The colours would need to match though......can be seen out in unsavoury threads ;)


It's a difficult one. If I was getting a good percentage of what I won, I reckon I might go for it so long as the sponsors were respectable.

I think that's the point Claire's making.  I'm sure she'd be as happy as most of us to be sponsored to play in these events that we otherwise wouldn't be able to enter (at least not on a regular basis), but where would you draw the line in terms of the sponsor.

i would take a sponsorship but only with a firm i would trust not to rip off people

sorry it would take alot of work for UB or AP to convince me to wear there colours

kev has no chance of getting me to wear his colours who could trust a man with those shifty eyes

I think the vast majority of poker players certainly would. Obviously anyone mega rich, a superstar of the game or a celebrity might have the luxury of picking and choosing. But for the remaining 99% of us, they would do a lot worse than wear a shirt with a poker rooms name on.

Johnybax and Eric Lynch are both highly successful players, but they still jumped at the chance at wearing UB logos, even though it was always going to be widely criticised.

I wonder what the worse possible shirt we all would wear would be for a free ride into the WSOPE main event? How many people would wear a Gary Glitter tour t-shirt to snag a seat in that one?

Hmmmm, that said, I dont know whether I would wear a Sheffield Utd shirt for the same WSOPE package, hmmmmmm

That doesn't sound at all difficult to me - like a shot!



my thoughts exactly

If I had to wear a ... I watch Big Brother...logo.

I would have to draw the line.

I think...

lolol, now thats a dilema :)

so are you now saying you would in fact consider it but they'd have to work hard to persuade you?

no - I never bother reading Ironstein's posts properly, obv.  I meant to leave only the first line in.

same here tbh

Who Liv ?

Me too  ::)

standard.  They don't usually make sense anyway.

I olo'd

After reading Rizens post on 2p2 on the subject i can totally understand him taking the opportunity, hes not a widely recognised face and it would be ludicrous to turn it down.

As for me, i'd take a sponsership from AP or UB in a second to roll me to play televised $10K's.  And most would do to, admitting it or not is a different matter.

ah well - I guess I stand corrected.  I am genuinely surprised though tbh - must be too naive.

I have to agree with this though obv i would rather take a deal from stars etc. Being freerolled into a 10k event or 2 is way too much money too big of a chance, to turn down. I would draw the line at being rolled by someone like Robert Mugabe.

yeah but only cos he'd have you beaten if you didnt make the money

Some people need a bit of motivation.

True but i hear he is good at rigging things.

lol, yeah i get a picture in my head of a dealer with a nervous look on his face dealing river after river till we finally win the hand

Great idea. T-Shirt for him. Mugabe, not bolt.

We talking about Mugabe now or back on the topic of Absolute Poker?

If I wasn't currently playing in two tourneys I would now be photoshopping an Absolute Poker cap on Mugabe's head.

Yeah apparantly Scott Tom is observing the elections this week.

I'd take the sponsorship, I'm available for hire to almost anyone.  I just love playing live poker so would jump at the opportunity to play a comp with a larger buy in than I could usually afford. 

Any comp, any comp at all.

any comp folks, any you like, doesn't matter where or when, I'm available for hire  ;)

I think comparrisons can be made between my quest for a bp t-shirt and the current political situation in zimbadwe.

This is real life and real t-shirts we're talikng about here and you can only push a man so far before he says enough is enough, you can take my farm but gimme my fcking zanu pf party t-shirt with my initials on it first!!

This is why Mugabe can't understand all the fuss.

He was taking the farms away from the white men, but he was offering personalised Blondepoker T-shirts in exchange.

I understand a Mr Boltpp from Bulaweyo was so incensed he burned his T-shirt in protest.

 rotflmfao

Topic was Dave Smith actually....

amazing digression

 Aspades
So Flushy ..understand the relevance of any of these later posts?

Dave obviously has his own views on how to play poker...shared by many thank god!
Long may he and all who believe like Wise play this way......Amen

PS. Sponsorship ? I have no ego just a few principles and I would dress as a giant lizard , Godzilla or Charlie Chaplin if my sponsor said I had too..in fact I would even let Tikay sponsor me if the money split was fair....money is my god. LoL

so its not just me?