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Not sure if anyone caught this on Saturday night but the guy in the blue jumper is Dave "Disco" Welch (not be confused with the late night poker version) who plays/played his poker in the Southend and London area's.

It's one of those looks like it's going to be terrible ones to start off with but has over 2 million views already...

Here is his herbert pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=125640 (http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=125640)


YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggswWVZ8zKA

They could be vying with Tom for a place in the live shows!

This was brilliant!

Yeah saw it at the time, made me smile, totally fooled Simon.

i know dave, saw this on saturday and completely missed it was him!

He is actually a dance teacher and runs an academy in Canvey so as soon as I saw him I thought it would be half decent.

never knew that

my memory of him is folding 95% of hands and only playing pairs back in the old days pre the tours, around the southern festivals!

He was quite a vocal character at the tables and I remember him on an FT that you would have done the update for in 2009 at Dtd that Keys won iirc.

Just seen that they range from 5/1 choral to 16/1 in the betting for it..

Hope he reacts better to not winning BGT than he does when he loses a hand!

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=36162

My memory of him was calling off 40 bigs 3 handed with a6 off against my kings pre flop when the third guy literally had 5 bigs left and high fiving everyone in the room when the ace fell first card on the flop.

Didn't you create a thread about that bad beat or was that another one  :P

Wasn't on blonde in those days son!  Long time ago.  Certainly wouldn't describe him like Tighty did back in those days.  Didn't know he did that for a living. Fair play to him.

Marky Mark spotted scooping 7k in that comp!

Must have been a mega soft field!

And bloody hell arbboy, you must have the longest herbie mob I've ever seen.

Must have played aginst you at some point, surely?

And Argue.

Has Marky 147 been doing a world tour?  Taipai and Cinncinnati on his herbertmob :)

Most of my herbies are not mine tbh.  There is another mark wilson who plays a lot of midweek stuff at dtd at smaller stakes and the vast majority of the small cashes are his tbh which land on my herbie. All the £100+ buyins are mine i think. First time i have looked at it for ages tbh.  I never played dtd outside out of the major weekend/festival stuff as too far to travel.

As far as i am aware Keith i have never sat on a poker table with you.

I got a great story about that mtt.  With 6 of us left we discussed a deal when i was chip leader and the sponsors ladbrokes had added 5 $5k vegas packages to the prize pool for the top 5 finishers.  I wasn't interested in going to vegas on a ladbrokes package as i already had a bf one for that year if i wanted one.  I said to everyone who was mad keen to go ' if you all give me £600 in cash each then i will give up my $5k package (even though it wasn't even mine to own yet as i could have techinically busto'd in 6th although unlikely as chip leader).  Everyone snap agreed and i pocketed the full cash value for a package i didn't want and didn't even own!  Easiest the funniest deal i have ever done on a poker table.

It was 2009, so sometimes I managed to land on a table with a couple players worse than me :)

That was a Laddies sponsored tournament about the last time Ladbrokes ever did anything in England, and they even knocked Killarney on the head a couple years later.

I had only just gotten out of hospital a week or so before that comp after a relapse, and then had another one midway through it, so had to get my old man to drive down and pick me up on the Sunday.

There were 5 added Vegas packages worth $5k and 6 of us left. Mark didn't need a Vegas package, because he could obviously get one from Betfair, so I suggested everyone chuck him £600 a piece, and we all have a package each. He got Cash value for the package, and we just paid him out of the expenses that were added.

Old Men Groovin qualified for the final last night

Mr Welch and friends chinned a 1/5 favourite, the gospel singing group, to win....

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Don't know much which one is our hero, but my two love this lot.  They have watched that video countless times and are learning all the moves.  Hope they win

"hero" is blue jumper

starts off the dancing, breakdances etc

Impressive performance last night.

300/1 on the machine right now.  Couldn't resist.  Surely the choir are just a bit dull?

Punters gonna punt  ;)

True, but 25/1 now  ;nana;

GLGL mate hope it wins for you!

He had another poker player in the dancers at the back tonight, Steve O'Keefe was roped in and showed at the back.

Go on then. Had a fiver at 200. What's the worst that can happen?

Oh yeah...I end up stuck watching the programme on a Sunday night...

What on earth are those judges wearing?

You can lay a pony at 40/1 now and nick a score whatever!! 

You've got faster fingers than I, but I have done what I could :)

As a programme, it's absolute bottywash, isn't it?

"There are four acts that can win it". Apparently, Simon has been following the betfair market.

not a bad sweat for a 300/1 chance :(

Yeah, complete rubbish.

Unlike that fabulous dancing programme.

Did Red-Dog win it?

There's such shite on TV these days that it's actually one of the more entertaining shows.

I knew you'd come round eventually.

Only for the colour blind

+1

BGT has definitely gone down the pan over the eyars, but what else is there? Not a big fan of BGT, but it's still a good watch. However it must be on it's back now, some of the dance acts in the final was rubbish, struggled to have made the semis years ago.

Thought the public got the top 3 spot on for the first time ever last night.

Not sure we are watching the same show Aaron, this years Was one of the best yet, throughout the series there has been 4 different favs, compare that to when Boyle was 2nd or the phone salesman (forget his name) won it who were both heavy favs, even the year Pudsy the dog won it they were favs all the way through. Very very tough final last night and going into it the Choir had been favs all week closely followed by Callum Scott (who was always at the top of the betting)  and it was only on the night that Julie and Matisse flipped the market along with the magician. Can see Simon and ITV rubbing their hands together at what a success this was, a fair few acts are going to make Simon even richer.

Certainly agree with you over the top 3, anyone of them could have won it, we certainly are animal lovers but that magician was fantastic wasn't he?

the magician rehashed a david blaine trick (he used an orange instead of a lemon). not that special, and certainly not that original. (hole in the bottom of the lemon, sleight of hand, away you go. certainly proficient at it though)

the choir was a bit boring on third listening.

and we know the country loves a dog act

certainly the dance acts were not a patch on previous years..so while the top end of the final was good and competitive i didn't think the finishers in the bottom half were anything special at all

had to laugh at "boyband" who actually didn't sing, and merely danced!

Enjoyable series, yes. But it was like a game of two halves for me in the final, the first half was not very good and the second half was absolutely great. I've no idea on the betting really though, little interest to me betting on such an event. But those dance acts, when you compare them to previous dance acts? Old Me Grooving was fun, but 4th place? Boyband was complete waste of a wildcard too, imo.

Although we agree right at the end, I could not choose between the magician and dog, in fact I still would have been pleased if the choir would have won. Such a worth top 3, which makes a refreshing change!

Away from the finalists, I like David, but sometimes he does get a bit tediously boring, I'd keep him, but HATE Aleysha, not hugely keen on Amanda, but would love to see Dixon get knocked off the panel

(lol @ me and tighty pretty much agreeing)

Haha, he looked very pleased with himself in the pose to camera at the end :-)

First time I'd seen the acts last night. The magician did an old and well-known trick (much older than David Blaine - probably Victorian at a guess), but he did it reasonably well. No different to someone singing a song someone else is famous for performing.

Can't be doing with all those flashing lights, fireworks and faux drama. Makes the darts seem refined.

cant believe a fuss is being created because they used a stunt double for the dog, people pay to see top movie stars all the time but dont ask for a refund when the actors use a double to jump over a 60ft ravine