R.I.P David "Devilfish" Ulliott 1954-2015

[Woodsey]

Hope the link is ok: this is superb, Jesse May reminisces about his friend the Devilfish: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/04/mickey-may-jesse-may-devilfish-21209.htm

lol can see myself poking my head in at the back on the laddies cruise pic, that must be about 10 years ago.

[Tal]

Hope the link is ok: this is superb, Jesse May reminisces about his friend the Devilfish: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2015/04/mickey-may-jesse-may-devilfish-21209.htm

Incredibly good.

Different gravy.

[bergeroo]

By Ken Lennard
http://www.pokerlistings.com/devilfish-blinked-back-the-king-is-gone-but-not-forgotten-42730

[aaron1867]

This is so sad, 61 is no age, RIP

[david3103]

By Ken Lennard
http://www.pokerlistings.com/devilfish-blinked-back-the-king-is-gone-but-not-forgotten-42730

Thanks for that. Pitch perfect.

[Karabiner]

By Ken Lennard
http://www.pokerlistings.com/devilfish-blinked-back-the-king-is-gone-but-not-forgotten-42730

That is superb and brought a tear or two to my eye.

[the sicilian]

Whenever I saw Devilfish, he always called me Noddy. I was never sure if this was after Noddy Holder of Slade or the kids TV character. I guess now I'll never know...

Which do you look more like ?

[bergeroo]

I'd like to think I am a mixture of the best characteristics of both!

Whenever I saw Devilfish, he always called me Noddy. I was never sure if this was after Noddy Holder of Slade or the kids TV character. I guess now I'll never know...

Which do you look more like ?

[DropTheHammer]

Holder. 100%. Sorry Phill!

[spacefrog]

 Courage Le Devilfish, bonne chance on this journey!

Sometimes we play AFC. He dirty mouth with clean cards.

One of these times he say to me a story about le Tony on this train from St Lazare.....

[SuuPRlim]

Once after a cash game where he'd gone totally irate over this hand, I asked him "Dave how you get so wound up over that hand not like it mattered"

TO which he responded;

"Son, either every hand matters or none of them do"

[TightEnd]

very entertaining Padraig Parkinson article about Devilfish

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-blogs/19-padraig-parkinson/entries/562058-devilfish-was-one-of-a-kind

[TightEnd]

Dave's funeral is at 1.30pm today in North Ferriby near Hull

During the UKIPT, DTD will observe a minute's silence at that time

Click to see full-size image.

[TightEnd]

Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, Hopefully will be voted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

www.WSOP.com/2015/POKERHALLOFFAME

if you would like to help vote Dave in

Here is Simon in Vegas yesterday

Click to see full-size image.

[Evilpengwinz]

Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, Hopefully will be voted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

www.WSOP.com/2015/POKERHALLOFFAME

if you would like to help vote Dave in

Here is Simon in Vegas yesterday

Click to see full-size image.

Sure did appreciate Simon deleting inoffensive discussion on the post about this on his Facebook wall yesterday. Maybe I wouldn't have wasted my time writing anything on there if I knew the only acceptable opinion to have was "Go Devilfish!"

Anyway, I'll reiterate what I said on there yesterday. Yes, he gets my vote for the final 10. However, I would be pleasantly surprised if he gets in the top 2 this year as opposed to people who have been nominated every year for the past few years, such as Huck Seed and Jen Harman.

As for 2016, Ivey is a lock, because apparently despite having a "Stood the test of time" criteria, you also need to be over 40, which is completely ridiculous, because nobody would've had a problem with Ivey and Negreanu being in there 5 years ago. The voting system will make the second nomination a crapshoot, because Ivey will get like >90% of the votes, and the other guy will be "Who does the guy who didn't use his vote on Ivey like?"

I struggle to see him actually getting into the Hall of Fame before 2017. However, I'm happy to be wrong.