The Dean's thread

[Hairydude]

I agree the hounding has been a bit over the top but disregarding any mud slinging,  IMO every point The Camel has posted has been valid

[the sicilian]

I've heard things from several different people which suggest the Dean's poker resume may be far from what he claims it is in his average-at-best advertorial style writing. You get better content on poker strategy on the PHA board...

I don't like it that he posts links on blonde which offer services for coaching and mentoring without substanciating his work (and who he is in a poker sense) and think it was only a matter of time before the knowledgeable players on blonde questioned him on this.

Questioning him is absolutely fine, Cos. Abusing him is not.

How don't people get this simple truth ?

yeah, save all your abusing for the sicilian on the luton league imo.

Never see Tikay sticking up for me... sigh FML

[tikay]

I agree the hounding has been a bit over the top but disregarding any mud slinging,  IMO every point The Camel has posted has been valid

I could not agree more - Camel's posts have been well made. There was never a problem with them, & that was never suggested or implied.

But I love "the hounding was a bit over the top" & "disregarding mud-slinging", on so many levels. That's the whole issue!

It's the modern way I guess, hunt in packs & gang up on folks, but that's not to say it's acceptable. Not in my world, anyway.

[the sicilian]

Me, abuse the man who told me I've come on in leaps and bounds :-) never have

I'm afraid I have to withdraw my previous comment on the Honourable gentleman after he opened limped utg with Q5 o/s .....

[tikay]

I've heard things from several different people which suggest the Dean's poker resume may be far from what he claims it is in his average-at-best advertorial style writing. You get better content on poker strategy on the PHA board...

I don't like it that he posts links on blonde which offer services for coaching and mentoring without substanciating his work (and who he is in a poker sense) and think it was only a matter of time before the knowledgeable players on blonde questioned him on this.

Questioning him is absolutely fine, Cos. Abusing him is not.

How don't people get this simple truth ?

yeah, save all your abusing for the sicilian on the luton league imo.

Never see Tikay sticking up for me... sigh FML

Nah, but you deserve it.

I may be the only one who has made a fat profit staking you, in fact.

[Madone]

that stupid fucking hat the dean wear puts me on life tilt!

[the sicilian]

I've heard things from several different people which suggest the Dean's poker resume may be far from what he claims it is in his average-at-best advertorial style writing. You get better content on poker strategy on the PHA board...

I don't like it that he posts links on blonde which offer services for coaching and mentoring without substanciating his work (and who he is in a poker sense) and think it was only a matter of time before the knowledgeable players on blonde questioned him on this.

Questioning him is absolutely fine, Cos. Abusing him is not.

How don't people get this simple truth ?

yeah, save all your abusing for the sicilian on the luton league imo.

Never see Tikay sticking up for me... sigh FML

Nah, but you deserve it.

I may be the only one who has made a fat profit staking you, in fact.

and the Dean thought he had it bad... even Tikay's got it in 4 me... oh tighty made a nice profit 2  

[celtic]

must be a 'dean thing'

[the sicilian]

must be a 'dean thing'

Wow  !  !  I see what you done there... the Dean thing.. Fantastic wit LOL

[The Camel]

There has been a long list of guys like the Dean over the years, Mark "ukpoker" Strahan, Jim "The Celtic Tiger" Britton and Paul "London" Samuels spring to mind but believe me there are countless others. (Notice the self christened nickname is all part of the act)

They actually mean no harm, but they try to create an image or persona for themselves in order to gain respect or status in a community they aspire to belong to.

But instead of "doing their time" they pretend (or actually believe) they are more talented than they actually are, writing books, articles, giving coaching etc when they are not technically gifted enough to give advice.

When called out about their lack of experience or talent or poor writing or spamming an explosion like tonight's inevitably occurs.

[Chompy]

I've heard things from several different people which suggest the Dean's poker resume may be far from what he claims it is in his average-at-best advertorial style writing. You get better content on poker strategy on the PHA board...

I don't like it that he posts links on blonde which offer services for coaching and mentoring without substanciating his work (and who he is in a poker sense) and think it was only a matter of time before the knowledgeable players on blonde questioned him on this.

Questioning him is absolutely fine, Cos. Abusing him is not.

How don't people get this simple truth ?

yeah, save all your abusing for the sicilian on the luton league imo.

Never see Tikay sticking up for me... sigh FML

Nah, but you deserve it.

I may be the only one who has made a fat profit staking you, in fact.

LOL @ may be
It's getting worse, not even a beige crimplene shirt (far left in the photo below) reversed Sir Donkey's luck tonight.

[the sicilian]

I've heard things from several different people which suggest the Dean's poker resume may be far from what he claims it is in his average-at-best advertorial style writing. You get better content on poker strategy on the PHA board...

I don't like it that he posts links on blonde which offer services for coaching and mentoring without substanciating his work (and who he is in a poker sense) and think it was only a matter of time before the knowledgeable players on blonde questioned him on this.

Questioning him is absolutely fine, Cos. Abusing him is not.

How don't people get this simple truth ?

yeah, save all your abusing for the sicilian on the luton league imo.

Never see Tikay sticking up for me... sigh FML

Nah, but you deserve it.

I may be the only one who has made a fat profit staking you, in fact.

LOL @ may be
It's getting worse, not even a beige crimplene shirt reversed Sir Donkey's luck tonight.

Fashion stick from a bloke who wears Peterborough shirts..proudly.. I have hit a new low... u 4got to mention the slow roll from 9  3 man

[thetank]

There has been a long list of guys like the Dean over the years, Mark "ukpoker" Strahan, Jim "The Celtic Tiger" Britton and Paul "London" Samuels spring to mind but believe me there are countless others. (Notice the self christened nickname is all part of the act)

They actually mean no harm, but they try to create an image or persona for themselves in order to gain respect or status in a community they aspire to belong to.

But instead of "doing their time" they pretend (or actually believe) they are more talented than they actually are, writing books, articles, giving coaching etc when they are not technically gifted enough to give advice.

When called out about their lack of experience or talent or poor writing or spamming an explosion like tonight's inevitably occurs.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of self promotion though, if that's what you're in to.

Is there an unwritten rule that you need to have been on late night poker to have any credibility.


If the articles he were churning out were offering ok advice, I would have no problem with Carl 'The Dean' Sampson.

[thetank]

I think there's plenty room for someone to write good quality stuff on poker strategy. If it pertains to online poker, then the person writing it may well be an unknown.

I would have no problem with that, the quality of the work should speak for itself.

[The Camel]

There has been a long list of guys like the Dean over the years, Mark "ukpoker" Strahan, Jim "The Celtic Tiger" Britton and Paul "London" Samuels spring to mind but believe me there are countless others. (Notice the self christened nickname is all part of the act)

They actually mean no harm, but they try to create an image or persona for themselves in order to gain respect or status in a community they aspire to belong to.

But instead of "doing their time" they pretend (or actually believe) they are more talented than they actually are, writing books, articles, giving coaching etc when they are not technically gifted enough to give advice.

When called out about their lack of experience or talent or poor writing or spamming an explosion like tonight's inevitably occurs.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of self promotion though, if that's what you're in to.

Is there an unwritten rule that you need to have been on late night poker to have any credibility.


If the articles he were churning out were offering ok advice, I would have no problem with Carl 'The Dean' Sampson.

How has he managed to land 2 (!!!) sponsorship deals?

First pokerheaven, now Cake.

I think I have heard of the exploits every sponsored pro except him.