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Famous players

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edited March 2014 in Poker Chat

Who's the most famous player you have sat at a table with?

What were they like?

How did you do?
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited March 2014
    Julian Thew.

    Nice guy; fairly quiet. I imagine he's quite a shy person away from the table. Probably the antithesis of Neil Channing.

    We played a few small pots together, but I decided not to go to war with him. He busted a couple of hours before I did ;)
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  • Lambert180Lambert180
    edited March 2014
    Probably Simon Deadman. He bashed me up at the end of day 1 of the UKPC 6max knocking me from like 280k to 165k. Table redraw for day 2 and I got him again, but bashed him up that time (luckboxed a few hands v him) to go from 165k back to 330k.

    Really nice guy, great table presence and just good to get a bit of chat going at the table.


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  • Chris_McChris_Mc
    edited March 2014
    wee john from the boozer, local poker league.

    he was on stv news once for boostin cars. :)
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  • SlipwaterSlipwater
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    wee john from the boozer, local poker league. he was on stv news once for boostin cars. :)
    Posted by Chris_Mc
    Haha.

    Classy ;)
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  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    Probably Simon Deadman. He bashed me up at the end of day 1 of the UKPC 6max knocking me from like 280k to 165k. Table redraw for day 2 and I got him again, but bashed him up that time (luckboxed a few hands v him) to go from 165k back to 330k. Really nice guy, great table presence and just good to get a bit of chat going at the table.
    Posted by Lambert180
    You must've played with Ed Giddins? James Hartigan? Even Richard Orford?

    All those are more famous than Simon Deadman imo (and Julian Thew).

    Mine will be John McCririck when he was playing sngs from the studio back in the day.
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  • Lambert180Lambert180
    edited March 2014
    Don't think I've actually played them any of them, definitely not live anyway. 

    Have played with Thew but most regular SPTers must have. Plagued with lil Dave too. 
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  • splashiessplashies
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    In Response to Re: Famous players : You must've played with Ed Giddins? James Hartigan? Even Richard Orford? All those are more famous than Simon Deadman imo (and Julian Thew). Mine will be John McCririck when he was playing sngs from the studio back in the day.
    Posted by DOHHHHHHH
    I play him in a £11 plo8 Ukops side event. He abused me in chat box too for making a bad play. Times must have been hard.
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  • DOHHHHHHHDOHHHHHHH
    edited March 2014

    Oh is it live?

    Haven't played with John Mac then.

    Did hold the door open for him once when I was working @ Donny Races though.




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  • Sky_DaveSky_Dave
    edited March 2014
    Daniel Negreanu, EPT London Charity Tournament. I final tabled, with Hevad Khan going on to win it. 

    Negreanu was an incredibly nice guy, was all about everyone having fun and super competitive, even in a £50 rebuy. Khan was a class act too, and a lot of banter around the bulldozer moments from the WSOP. He was a lot quieter in London, but then he wasn't playing for a billion dollars.

    I played the first table with Dario Minieri on my right too and stacked him four times in the rebuy period. I spent a total sum of £100 (add-on FTW).

    Those days were immense...

    (Also played with Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch in the same tournament. That was pretty sweet, apart from the fact they were tied up with Full Tilt. Let's not go there though, eh?)
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  • Sky_DaveSky_Dave
    edited March 2014
    Best bluff I ever pulled against a good player was vs. Nik Persaud in a satellite for Late Night Poker (yes, that long ago). Managed to get him to pass a set of eights on a AK8Jccxc board. I had six-high, no club. 

    OK, enough of my brags.
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  • offshootoffshoot
    edited March 2014
    Once sat down at a table to see Jake Cody on my right, turns out he was just sitting talking to a friend and got up and left. PHew! Then Marcel Luske sat down. Pleasant chap.
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  • jonjo75jonjo75
    edited March 2014
    The 6max in the UKPC was stacked with good players. I played with Tom Hall. Sinem Melin, Julian Thew , Carlo Citrone and JP kelly. It was a bit different to my local casino in Torquay but I loved every minute of it, apart from the last.
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  • hhyftrftdrhhyftrftdr
    edited March 2014
    Busted Alex Goulder in the Grand Prix at DTD last year. Earlier on, also had him and Andrew Hulme on my table, though I didn't realise it was stato_1 at the time.

    Online, had James Dempsey on my UKOPS ME table. I think he got me off the best hand about 217,482 times.
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  • chicknMeltchicknMelt
    edited March 2014
    live: matt perrins. didnt play many hands with him because he bust fairly soon afterwards.

    Online: Elky. bust him in a WCOOP event :)

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  • scotty77scotty77
    edited March 2014
    Allan Cunningham.  Twice.  He's got the most amazing table presence.  It's like a hawk is watching you.  Really nice guy too.
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  • GELDYGELDY
    edited March 2014
    Barney Boatman
    had him on my left in a UKIPT
    really nice guy
    got it all in on the flop as button vs his small blind
    we both had AK
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  • DoubleAAADoubleAAA
    edited March 2014
    Marcel Luske @ UPKC.  Was very friendly and made several jokes during most of day 2.  Witnessed him get super lucky vs a sky sat qualifer with 99 vs the sky sat player AA.  Marcel said, in poker it doesn't matter how good you are, you still need the luck to carry you through to the end!
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  • FlyingDaggFlyingDagg
    edited March 2014
    Tomgoodun needs to see this thread. He's sat with someone famous but he doesn't like to talk about it :)
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  • Jac35Jac35
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    Don't think I've actually played them any of them, definitely not live anyway.  Have played with Thew but most regular SPTers must have. Plagued with lil Dave too. 
    Posted by Lambert180
    Intrigued as to what disease and how lildave plagued you.
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  • TommyDTommyD
    edited March 2014
    Former Main Event Winner Robert Varkonyi.  Really came across well and was a thoroughly decent and friendly bloke.  The fun aspect of him joining the table was everyone starting playing QT like it was the nuts.
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  • EnutEnut
    edited March 2014
    I've played Phil Ivey a few times online, however he seems to multi account because his screen name has been things like philivey12, philiveysgreat, philivey57 etc. Also he seems to move a lot because he has been from various places such as Scunthorpe and Wigan, both of which, I am reliably informed are rather 'dowdy'.

    His personality seems to change too. Sometimes he is nice sometimes not. I guess multi millionaires also have bad days.

    He must be really keen on poker because he often plays the small limit games. Maybe he likes the interaction. 

    Played Philiveysdad too, he was nice.
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  • tomgooduntomgoodun
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    Tomgoodun needs to see this thread. He's sat with someone famous but he doesn't like to talk about it :)
    Posted by FlyingDagg
    Haha, is this an invitation to divulge my story again mate, go on you know you like it ;)

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  • sikassikas
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    In Response to Re: Famous players : Haha, is this an invitation to divulge my story again mate, go on you know you like it ;)
    Posted by tomgoodun
    well tell the story then! :)
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  • FlyingDaggFlyingDagg
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    In Response to Re: Famous players : Haha, is this an invitation to divulge my story again mate, go on you know you like it ;)
    Posted by tomgoodun
    It's a great story you have to tell it.


    edited to say: Oh xxxx I've got you mixed up with pomfrittes. Yours is good I suppose (depends who was on your table) but poms is a real good one.
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  • tomgooduntomgoodun
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    In Response to Re: Famous players : It's a great story you have to tell it. edited to say: Oh xxxx I've got you mixed up with pomfrittes. Yours is good I suppose (depends who was on your table) but poms is a real good one.
    Posted by FlyingDagg
    Now you know I don't like to talk about me winning a seat at wsop main event and walking out with Greg Raymer ( He really is as big as he looks on tv) so Ill not mention it. Oh I won it on a freeroll with poker points amassed over the year and finished 2nd of 1412 players with top 4 getting a 15k package,other than that iv played on the same table as Dale winton I think his name is. :)
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  • SPTSPT
    edited March 2014
    One of us just won a cool $1m winning a WPT

    One of us didn't




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  • Chris_McChris_Mc
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    In Response to Re: Famous players : Now you know I don't like to talk about me winning a seat at wsop main event and walking out with Greg Raymer ( He really is as big as he looks on tv) so Ill not mention it. Oh I won it on a freeroll with poker points amassed over the year and finished 2nd of 1412 players with top 4 getting a 15k package,other than that iv played on the same table as Dale winton I think his name is. :)
    Posted by tomgoodun[/QUOTE

    nice!!
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  • FlyingDaggFlyingDagg
    edited March 2014
    In Response to Re: Famous players:
    In Response to Re: Famous players : Now you know I don't like to talk about me winning a seat at wsop main event and walking out with Greg Raymer ( He really is as big as he looks on tv) so Ill not mention it. Oh I won it on a freeroll with poker points amassed over the year and finished 2nd of 1412 players with top 4 getting a 15k package,other than that iv played on the same table as Dale winton I think his name is. :)
    Posted by tomgoodun

    Dale Winton??????
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  • BigHawk89BigHawk89
    edited March 2014
    I once busted Isildur1 from a SCOOP event.
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  • SolarCarroSolarCarro
    edited March 2014
    EPT Grand Final winner Pieter de Korver in the UKIPT Nottingham, I kept away from him but did run him back to his hotel after day 1 and discussed some hands, lovely guy who even railed me on day 3

    Sam Razavi, same tournament

    Fintan Gavin at The Eglinton in Galway, excellent reader

    Jerry Yang, cash game at Aria in Vegas, was in same tournament as Hellmuth in Aria but alas different table



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