"Swimming With The Devilfish" by Des Wilson

[Eck]

have read the book thought it was not bad, met des at a game down in west cornwall run by colin who i think he is good friends with and he seems a nice guy

Taxi if you are ever down in cornwall come and play some of our games as well at grants sports bar, wont post our web address unless the mods here say i can

Not sure but i think he lives in the Phillipines 

[KingPoker]

have read the devilfish part and found thta mistake too sark. Keep it in car now so read it whenever im somewhere waiting for the missus. Great Read!

  KingPoker

[taximan007]

have read the book thought it was not bad, met des at a game down in west cornwall run by colin who i think he is good friends with and he seems a nice guy

Taxi if you are ever down in cornwall come and play some of our games as well at grants sports bar, wont post our web address unless the mods here say i can

I use to live in Cornwall (now in Philippines), and from Jan-Aug 2006 i think i am right in saying i played in EVERY tournament run by Colin/Heather, i also ran the tournaments for a 2 week period whilst they were on holiday. (i miss the whole set up very much).

Des was good enough to invite the 3 of us to dinner when he had Liam Flood staying with him, and afterwards back to his house for a £10 freezout, winner takes all. A game i won taking out the Gentleman Liam on the way, my AK got lucky against his 77.

I believe i may have seen your website as i think Colin has a link to it on his site.

[the-oneeye]

yes he has, hopefully working together soon on a cornwall poker championship

[taximan007]

yes he has, hopefully working together soon on a cornwall poker championship

Yes good luck to you on that, and continuing success with your own tournaments, if i had still been there i would have definately come and played.

I still chat to Colin regulary on ladbrokes, and will be sponsering one or two tournaments this year.

[Micko]

Did the devilfish and des not have a big fallin out over this book?

To be honest i dont think the book would of sold as much if the devilfish's name wast the main headliner!

Decent read anyway

[KingPoker]

I thought they were big mateys!

[Micko]

Im sure i read somewhere they fell out over the book but not certain.
Maybe some1 nos on here?

[taximan007]

I read that devilfish wasnt to pleased with the way he was portrayed in the book. As for fallling out, i dont know, it's NOT something Des ever mentioned.

What i will say is that the work Des puts in for his books, eg time, research etc is second to none, he is a very diligent hard working guy.

[tikay]

No, Mr Ulliott was not best pleased with the book, he takes exception to even the slightest criticism about him, even if it's surrounded by heaps of praise for his undoubted poker skills.

When Des - who is, of course, a perfectly wonderful Gentleman - was researching for "Swimming with the Devlfish" he asked me to spend a little time with him, to give him "any nice stories about Devilfish". A tall order, that, so I studiously avoided Des for fully 2 years, & Des kept chasing me!

Devilfish regularly berates me for any negative comments made about him on blonde, or by blonde colleagues of mine. He earholed me big time at Rob Yong's Broxtowe Arms party because of some perfectly reasonable , not at all critical, comments El Blondie had made about him in a poker magazine. Meanwhile, El Blondie was stood two paces to our right. "Why dont you ask him yourself?" I asked..... "He's your partner, you tell him" he replied. A strange man indeed. Great player, mind.

[KingPoker]

That el blonde comment wasnt in Inside Edge was it???

[TightEnd]

how many lines in the "Swimming with Devilfish2 book were about you tikay?

none?

you haven't made it to the big time yet then!

did I not read somewhere that Mr Wilson was interviewing you for his next book tikay?

[Micko]

I use to really like the devilfish and no doubt he is a superb player but the poker boom has gone completley to his head!

When hes at a table he thinks no1 else has the right to win a pot and when he busts out he just cries about how bad other people plays

[taximan007]

I was lucky enough to Hit quad against his Full House on the ladbrokes cruise 2004 

[tikay]

That el blonde comment wasnt in Inside Edge was it???

You got it my friend. What the hell it had to do with me I'll never know, but he verbally berated me big time, he was livid.