David "Doobs" Barraclough is one of the sharpest posters we have on blonde. He signed up in 2006 but it is only in the last year he's been very active and a superb contributor to the forum
An actuary by profession, a love of numbers and logic shones through a lot of his posts usually with a calm but understated authority that gets attention
He's very knowledgeable, He's the top Tipster on "Tips for Tikay" in 2012 with the highest ROI and overall profit.
However he's active across the forum on staking boards, in quizzes, in various discussions and of course in sports threads.
He probably looks less like a ballsy poker player than anyone

but he's had at times, a very good poker year too notably in Online festivals, such as on this thread
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=59185.0He described his poker year only a few days ago...
"Made £27.5k by the end of March.
Lost £25k of it by a couple of weeks ago.
Bought two books to improve my game.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mental-Game-Poker-Jared-Tendler/dp/0615436137/and
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1904468942/Won £17.5k in 3 days.
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Then started reading the books. "