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Just heard he has died.

RIP.

Can't see anything on here, but have seen some posts on Facebook saying he's lost his battle with cancer.

Shocking news if accurate (looks like the initial announcement came from his sister, so I presume it is).

Given his former links with blonde I'm assuming the news is just surfacing, so sorry to be the bearer of this information.

RIP El Blondie.

Just seen a post on Facebook saying Dave has passed away.  As someone who is more a "lurker" these days than a poster, reminded me of the early days and Dave's involvement with Blonde and the forum in the early days - so many good memories.

I have no idea whether the post is right, however no reason to think it isn't.  Thoughts with his family and friends if the news i confirmed.

Was such a nice bloke and well respected in the poker community for so long, that in it self shows what a stand up guy he was. RIP Dave the Original Blonde

Terrible news. R.I.P   

Noo. Dave was one of the good guys. One of the guys I first remembered from late night poker and his competitiveness intrigued me when I joined the poker scene in 2005.

RIP Dave

 Very sad news. Dave was one of the good guys.

RIP Dave, taken far too soon.

Very sad news and so young. RIP Dave.

RIP El Blondie

RIP Dave. Was a nice guy & really encouraged us noobs at CinCins back in the day.

Very sad news. Like so many have and will say "a true gent and a great player". My thoughts go out to remaining family at this sad time.

RIP

A terrible loss for the community, ☹

Terrible news, RIP El Blondie

FFS!

One of my first ever big live tournaments I played he went on and won, I played with him for several days and he kinda 'took me under his wing' as he could tell I was out of my depth a little bit. Really showed how to treat newbies to help them enjoy the game.

An absolute gent.

 

Rest In Peace Dave  x

A gentle gentleman, RIP.

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Rest in Peace Dave

RIP Dave.

As others have said, one of the good guys who actually understood the whole poker scene.

Ghastly news. He was just 52.

My 'phone has not stopped ringing, so many people so shocked.

More later, maybe, when I get my head round it all.

When he started blonde he had the maxim " poker with a smile", & I'll remember him for that as much as anything. 

RIP Dave.

RIP Dave.

Such sad news RIP Dave

Very sad news. R.I.P Dave.

Exactly the same for me. RIP :(

Didn't know him personally but played with him many times RIP

Sad news indeed.. remember watching him on late night poker and locking horns many times on Paradise poker many years ago.. R.I.P.

Very sorry to hear this RIP Dave

Just seen the news on FB,  first met him at an early Blonde bash in Luton where we both played football for the Welsh team and then he was on both my wife's and my table in the poker tournament later on.
He was such a lovely down to earth friendly man, and would always have a chat to me whenever I saw him after that, sad news,  RIP Dave.

RIP dave

such sad news

The few times I met him he was a really nice guy and he went out of his way to help my ex at her first poker tourney.

RIP Dave

Davastating news.

I hope he knew what high regard everyone in the poker community held him. I never once heard a bad word about him.

RIP El Blondie

Absolutely gutted.  My condolences to Dave's family and the people who were close to him.

One of those who made poker enjoyable.
R.I.P.

RIP Dave always a gentleman

Horrible to hear this.


RIP Dave.

R.I.P.

RIP Dave. Too young.

R.I.P.

Terrible news about a decent bloke who was far too young.

RIP Dave.

RIP Dave. In my dealings with him he was always a gentleman.

Lovely bloke.  Tragic news. I was on business in Poland and decided to be the punter at an EPT main event and he was great table company.  I remember shoving on someone and this German fellow asking if I was nervous.  Dave dryly observed "why are you asking a man who has drunk that much whisky if he is nervous?"

Played a few times after that.  So sad he has gone so young.  RIP.

Shocking News.

When I first started playing live Omaha, I jumped straight into the big cash game at the Broadway, Dave was a regular in that game and I remember being in total awe of his fearlessness and level headedness, he'd consistantly win huge pots and always seemed to get it in massively ahead.  I was out of massively out of my depth and I sat next to him and he taught me so much about PLO.

I also remember him playing in a biggish tournament at one of the Broadway festivals and making it to the final three players.  The other two players tried to broker a deal with him but he turned it down flat.

These two players then made a deal with each other that they would effectively play together agasinst Dave and share the resulting amount cash they both won.  I remember that lots of people knew about this deal and thought that it was a bit underhand, but Dave couldn't have cared less, he won the tourney in the next 6 hands as I recall.

RIP Dave, a true gentlemen.

This.

RIP El Blondie.

I first met Dave about six years ago, and last heard from him after he moved to a Liverpool hospital in August, while I was expecting this, it still came as a shock.

I won't pretend we knew each other well, but had a shared love of a few old bands, as well as other connections, and sporadically kept in touch. I'm genuinely quite upset by the news of his untimely death and will always give a nod to his memory whenever i hear a song by The Cars.

RIP El Blondie x

10 years ago blonde ran a poker school evening in London and it was there I first met Dave. 
Fantastic evening and great words of wisdom spoken in a teaching class from him....never forgotten.

RIP Dave.

Thomas Stott
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Sorry to hear of the passing of poker player Dave Colclough. Fans of the original Late Nite Poker in the late nineties/early noughties will remember him from there.
I've got fond memories of Mr Colclough. After mucking around with online poker in 2004 and 2005 and doing ok (because all the online players back in those days were even more terrible than me) I moved to Glasgow in late 2005 with pretentions of being a professional poker player.
I moved into a flat in Wallace Street and made my way down the road to the Cincinnati Card Club one evening. Colclough had recently moved to Glasgow himself and bought an interest in the venue. He was there that first might I went in.
They were trying to organise a winner take all freezeout tournament with 10 players and a buy-in of £1000. In the end there were just 6 players and the buy in was £500. I was one of them.
It was a bit rich for my blood. I allowed myself the oppurtunity to play because.. well... although I called myself a professional gambler back then - my attitude tended to be more geared towards the 'gambler' part than the 'professional'.
The tournament itself came down to me and Mr Colclough playing heads up for the pot of £3000. We took a break and went to relieve ourselves in the toilet.
The tournament was just a casual evening for Mr Colclough, who no doubt knew how green I was. (Though I was trying my best to play the part)
The eveing was as much about public relations for him than it was maximizing his equity. So it came to pass as we stood doing our business in adjacent urinals that he offered me a 'saver'
A saver is a deal where instead of winner take all, you agree that whoever wins pays the loser something. Dave suggested a saver of £500
I played it cool, pretended I wasn't desperate to cash out for as much as I could right then and there and said, yeah could do - or we could take a grand each and play for the other one?
Dave agreed to this. As I say, the evening wasn't about killing fish like me who may come back.
We played out the rest of the tournament - I got lucky (the only way I could have won) and ended up being pushed the £3000 prize pool.
I gave Dave his £1000 a few minutes later while he was talking to someone else. I remember thinking how cool it all was when he popped it in his pocket without counting it and resuming his conversation.
The biggest game of my life to that point was to him part of normal weekday evening playing cards. I count the change I bought my drink at the bar, he sticks a grand in his pocket like it's a bar of chocolate.
I got to know him a little bit in the next few months. He offered me the job of being the card room manager. I initially took the job, then after a couple of days (when I realised how out of my depth I was) I backed out of the gig. He was very understanding about it all and didn't bear a grudge for me wasting his time.
He liked to give young guys a chance with his buisness interests. In my case that didn't work out but I know a few young guys similar to myself who worked for him in other areas for a long time. They report having been grateful for the trust placed in them - and they did good work.
I'm not the most observant man in the world, and I was oblivious to much of the intrigue and gossip in the poker world. To me Dave Colclough was always a gentleman, always a man I looked up to, and a man who I'll always remeber for giving me a chance.
I've heard the news this evening that he has passed away, aged 52. Tragic irony that a card player should die at this age, his deck being depleted. It's too young, he deserved more years in my opinion - but of course cancer doesn't work like that.
RIP Dave Colclough.


Stolen from ''thetank's' Facebook.

Hope he doesn't mind.

Great post Tank.

I remember the first time DC asked me if I wanted to swap a percentage in a tournemnt, I thought about for about 0.00001 seconds, but played it cool and hummed and hawed a bit before agreeing. Secretly thrilled that a legend like him would offer a greenhorn like me a swap. I really thought I'd made it that day.

R.I.P Dave
Genuinely feel saddened by this news . A sad day for poker .
It also goes to show how well respected he was ,in the way heroes of blonde days gone by,  have stopped by and posted their condolences .

That is a lovely piece by Thomas.

Such terrible news. Dave was an absolute gentleman and will be missed by so many of us.

R.I.P

x

Extrmely sad news. Condolences to his family and a great loss for poker and particularly for this forum. Have many good memories of times with Dave. His heads up against Barry Neville in Manchester is one of them, but I think my favourite was sharing drinks with him in the Bellagio at the Fontana bar, on the day after he got a new tatooo. It was an enormous image of a women on his arm and even he was shocked, saying he never asked for it to be that big. Will be sorely missed. RIP Dave.

So gutted. Spoke with David about 5-6 weeks ago and we talked about the old days and my brother Kim (Dave came to hid funeral).  It was so good chatting it really brought home how much I enjoyed his company and talking about Liverpool FC.  I was planning to meet him when I come over soon - sad beyond beyond words. Just a great guy and will be missed by many. R.I.P David.

IT is with great sadness that I heard of the sad death of El Blondie tonight.   It's been years since I posted on this site having once been one of the proud co owners of the site with Dave and Tikay and others.  I had to re register in order to do so and apologies for not having the same username.  
Dave never sought to show just how good he was, or how superior a player he was.  He was a gentleman on and off the table.  He took and gave many beats with exactly the same amount of humility.  He was always a great ambassador for how the game should be played.  I had the great pleasure once to spend a week with him in the Turks and Cacaos Islands.  Actually Devilfish was there as well.   What a great Omaha game those two will be having now.    During the week we all went sea fishing.  I swear to you I have never seen a man with such a white body.   The glare was incredible.   We all took bets on how long it would take for him to get sun burned.  As we were all busy putting sun cream on it was already to late.  Less than 10 minutes.  He took it in his stride and caught the biggest fish.  Not for the first or last time.  
He encouraged new players. He spoke up when it was needed to protect the game he loved.  I just wish he had a few bracelets to show for his game. Judging by the heart felt messages on this board he has at least won the World Series of gentlemen poker players.  RIP
Denis O Mahoney.

Was one of the first poker heroes for me.

When watching LNP he didn't seem to fit the standard requirements and I loved seeing his flickery eyes as he tried to read people.

It was one of those special moments when I first got to play with him, and as stated so many times before, he was an absolute gent with a wonderful quiet sense of humour.

I didn't realise he was so young. RIP Dave.

Very sad news. RIP Dave

Terrible news RIP Dave

Like many I was a huge DC fanboy & was always thrilled when I got a chance to play with him. He had a unique demeanour at the table & I loved the way he’d hunch himself over his stack & casually let a handful of chips fall out onto the table.
He was one of the first to small-ball it in Europe & was always happy to discuss why he done this or that; a lovely guy & a huge influence, never to be forgotten.

https://uk.pokernews.com/news/2016/10/poker-mourns-the-loss-of-dave-el-blondie-colclough-25469.htm

Same here - the freeroll after the class was my first ever live game and I can remember it all - shaking like a leaf and massively overbetting when I found Kk utg first hand.  Dave was on hand to give advice to us noobs as required and I would have bust midway but for Dave's counsel that pocket 3s really aren't a premium hand :) I fell in love with the game on that day and he was a big part of it.

RIP El Blondie

Terrible news to hear.

Like many have said he always had time to help newbies or oldbies and it was a pleasure to have been in his company at the table and occasionally away from it.

RIP Dave

Horrible news to hear.

One of the few players I never heard a bad word about.

RIP Dave.

What a trip that was, and it was the first thing my father mentioned when I told him that Dave had passed.

Most corrupt country/place I've ever been, and will likely ever visit.

There were loads of Brits out there for that tourney, and there were some wild cash games in the card room, which had been purpose built for the tourney.

Remember Jamie Gold knocking chunks in playing PLO with a few of the british players, out the back of the bar everyone drank in.


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Dave made the final, and Jaffa lost HU to one of this years HOF inductees :)

Sad news. I was on a final table with Dave at some side event at the Broadway where I was chip leader and he was a close second when the tournament had about 30 minutes left of play before a chip count was instigated. He played the game to the letter and eventually he beat me in the chip count. This was all down to him slowing the game when necessary and understanding that all he needed to do was place 1 BB less than me. I learnt such a valuable lesson that night. I've also had the pleasure of many a PLO cash game where he always seemed to get the better of me. I have no idea why?

RIP Dave

Just saw the news on pokernews while on holiday so sad grew up watching late night poker If it wasn't for  guys like Dave I may never have found the game

It looks like Dave featured on the first episode of Late Night Poker. Or at least his pseudonym "Dave Colclouth".

Apparently at that stage he wasn't aware that AQ beats 33 on 44668 :)

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nZJVmZbH4

Here's a couple of articles from the Blonde archive about Dave, one interview with Dave Lloyd and the other an article by Snoopy

http://blondepoker.com/?q=node/518

http://blondepoker.com/?q=node/10452

Also there's a thread on 2+2 in which Brian 'wsop07' Wilson pays tribute.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=51015646&postcount=23

DC was such a nice guy. He was always willing to give advice and help to those starting out in the business, and absolutely without ulterior motive (which was as rare then as it is now). A very sad day.

Rest In Peace.

I remember that. He was such a gentlemen on the pitch too. He'd go and kick someone in a terrible attempt at a tackle, and then apologise profusely.

RIP El Blondie.

YNWA

Does anyone know the date/time and venue for the funeral?

I know quite a few people who would like to pay their respects, but finding out the details are quite difficult.

Very sad news, Dave was a lovely gentle man. RIP

 Aspades
Oh Dear,
Sad indeed,   RIP   DC,   we shared many a laugh and a few not so funny moments

Only met him a couple of times at bashes I think, but do recall it was a pleasure to be in his company.

Such sad news RIP.

It has been decided that it will be family only at the funeral. Obviously will respect that.

Think it would be nice to run a tournament in Dave's name in a couple of months time, and possibly raise some money for cancer research.

And would give his friends a chance to reminisce and maybe raise a glass in his memory.

If anyone is interested, I'll keep you updated here.

Good idea.

I'm in if it's local(ish).

Broadway (Birmingham) and PLO was the tentative plan.