Kev Allen interview

[tikay]

My memory played tricks, I just checked that Tourney that Paul won in Dublin.

It was £1,500 Entry, £100,000 Guaranteed to the winner, & there were 82 entries.

So there was £100,000 to the winner, & £23,000 to be split between the remaining 8 or 9 players prior to Paul sorting it out.

It was at a place called the Cavendish Club. Very reputable venue.

That club was in Belfast Tikay, unfortunately the police closed it down. Sean Murphy owned it.

Yes, of course, Belfast not Dublin, apologies.

The police raided it and confiscated the tournament prize pool and all the roulette tables I seem to recall.

[Marky147]

Cavendish Club it was called.

[tikay]

Cavendish Club it was called.

Yup.

I think that Tourney may have been sponsored by Ladbrokes, which was why the likes of Paul Jackson and Skalie were there for it. Mr Ulliott turned up, too, and Thewy.

[GreekStein]

Paul is the absolute nuts

[The Camel]

http://thepokerdeck.com/articles/the-poker-deck-meets-kevin-allen

total role model for every young grinder out there, went from quiz machines to fruitys to pro dog punter and now poker player, and has brought up a family of 3 as the only bread winner for the last 11 years. Great interview and one of the guys i respect the most in the whole world

I started my life as a degen by playing quiz machines for a living.

Could earn £100 per hour on the right machine in the gold old days.

[SuuPRlim]

Paul is the absolute nuts

agreed. he's very, very shrewd (and a top bloke). When I first met him I very arrogantly under-estimated him.

[The Squid]

He's soooo dreamy

[redarmi]

http://thepokerdeck.com/articles/the-poker-deck-meets-kevin-allen

total role model for every young grinder out there, went from quiz machines to fruitys to pro dog punter and now poker player, and has brought up a family of 3 as the only bread winner for the last 11 years. Great interview and one of the guys i respect the most in the whole world

I started my life as a degen by playing quiz machines for a living.

Could earn £100 per hour on the right machine in the gold old days.

How did this work?  Did you have to have a very good general knowledge or was there certain questions that would come up again and again?  Was there a specific strategy?

[claypole]

http://thepokerdeck.com/articles/the-poker-deck-meets-kevin-allen

total role model for every young grinder out there, went from quiz machines to fruitys to pro dog punter and now poker player, and has brought up a family of 3 as the only bread winner for the last 11 years. Great interview and one of the guys i respect the most in the whole world

I started my life as a degen by playing quiz machines for a living.

Could earn £100 per hour on the right machine in the gold old days.

How did this work?  Did you have to have a very good general knowledge or was there certain questions that would come up again and again?  Was there a specific strategy?

Memory vpbanks were small, was the days just after getting a 16k ram pack for a Spectrum - well I am exaggerating, but was possible to memorise questions - even easier if you acquired the bank of

[bookiebasher]

Laddies was the nuts back in the day, and the Daddy was such a great tourney.

What was Kev's alias?

Loved laddies and who's the daddy plus the tourney in the afternoon , think it was $ 200 ,
lasted about 4 hours , had about 20-25 regs playin it , including the old man.

Happy days

[The Camel]

http://thepokerdeck.com/articles/the-poker-deck-meets-kevin-allen

total role model for every young grinder out there, went from quiz machines to fruitys to pro dog punter and now poker player, and has brought up a family of 3 as the only bread winner for the last 11 years. Great interview and one of the guys i respect the most in the whole world

I started my life as a degen by playing quiz machines for a living.

Could earn £100 per hour on the right machine in the gold old days.

How did this work?  Did you have to have a very good general knowledge or was there certain questions that would come up again and again?  Was there a specific strategy?

Memory vpbanks were small, was the days just after getting a 16k ram pack for a Spectrum - well I am exaggerating, but was possible to memorise questions - even easier if you acquired the bank of

Yep, was ridic.

I've always been pretty good at general knowledge (One of my teachers used to say "Keith is a mine of worthless information") asnd when a new machine turned up I probably knew 60-70% of questions and as there were only a couple of thousand questions, I kept getting repeat questions ands it didn't take more than a couple of weeks to know the lot.

Could literally play the machines until they were empty of cash.

Only danger was getting banned from pubs/clubs/snooker halls. Still in those days, virtually every pub had a quiz machine.

Happy days.

[Marky147]

Laddies was the nuts back in the day, and the Daddy was such a great tourney.

What was Kev's alias?

Loved laddies and who's the daddy plus the tourney in the afternoon , think it was $ 200 ,
lasted about 4 hours , had about 20-25 regs playin it , including the old man.

Happy days

$250+20 @ 1430

[Marky147]

Paul is the absolute nuts

Deffo

[paulhouk03]

Paul is the absolute nuts

Thanks

[bookiebasher]

Laddies was the nuts back in the day, and the Daddy was such a great tourney.

What was Kev's alias?

Loved laddies and who's the daddy plus the tourney in the afternoon , think it was $ 200 ,
lasted about 4 hours , had about 20-25 regs playin it , including the old man.



Happy days

$250+20 @ 1430

Bingo !!!! Loved it , could play it while at work . Looking back now they were golden days and can't
believe Ladbrokes made such a cock up of a good customer base.