Old school poker heroes

Sky_Poker

Who were your first poker heroes?

Where are they now?

Have you ever met or played with them?

Sky_Poker

p.s. they dont necessarily have to be old!

NoseyBonk

When I first started watching on TV & learning - Chris Ferguson. Guess we'll just move on from that one eh.
I really like Gus. Fun to watch in games & has the right attitude. Comes across as a decent sort.
Only mega famous player I've met is Orford. I've also met Tikay.

VespaPX

In Response to Re: Old school poker heroes:

p.s. they dont necessarily have to be old!
Posted by Sky_Poker

Well that rules TK out then !

MAXALLY

Kara Scott

Liv Boeree

Lisa-Marie Long.

Purely based on all their poker knowledge.

 BTW.....LML was the very essence of what an SPT meant.She actually won a Cardiff Friday night side event way before Richard Orford had won his first hand of poker (FTR)

BigHawk89

Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negrenu, Phil Ivey and Phill laak. 

All brilliant in their own ways and very entertaining to watch!

DOHHHHHHH

Matt Matros, Roy 'the boy' Brindley and Tom Dwan. 

Haven't heard anything about any of them for years! 

shakinaces

Given I was one of those that were hooked on poker through the first series of Late Night Poker, it can only be Devilfish for me.

I very much doubt that I will ever reach a level where I can play at the same table as any of the star names I've watched on screen... can but dream that my luckboxability will ever take me that far!

mrsduck

Tom Dwan! where has he gone?!?

Slipwater

Phil Hellmuth was the first big name poker player to take my attention.

Lately, when playing live, I've actually found myself shaking my head, and thinking (and sometimes saying, much to my bemusement) the kind of wisdom-nuggets that he offers others

I'm a much more talkative player because of him.

Enut

In Response to Re: Old school poker heroes:

Given I was one of those that were hooked on poker through the first series of Late Night Poker, it can only be Devilfish for me. I very much doubt that I will ever reach a level where I can play at the same table as any of the star names I've watched on screen... can but dream that my luckboxability will ever take me that far!
Posted by shakinaces

Same here. His book is quite a good read by the way. A very 'interesting' character, certainly not someone you would want to get on the wrong side of I think!

IDONKCALLU

devil fish dave ulliot and 1 of my favs ram caswani 

Enut

Ram Vaswani? I remember playing a tennis match 15+ years ago and one of the opposition said he was a pro poker player, may have been him, certainly looked like him.

dazed1

huck seed was the player i routed for when i started watching poker on tv,loved hearing all his prop bet stories,speaking of prop bets recently read a book about titanic thompson and couldnt put it down.

a00rock

Yeah Devilfish and John Duthie tho he was more famous for another game!