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just a bit.
more citrone stories please, i get the feeling there is a rich well of interigue to be had there.
When I pen these pieces, I literally just choose a month & year, then go search the results from that month. For the period 2004 to around 2008, when I was playing the circuit a great deal, I can probably write a piece about the payers who cashed in any Festival Event in Great Britain & Ireland.
In the previous blog "Murder he wrote" or somesuch - I described two different poker players I had shared many tables with, both of whom were subsequently convicted for murder. One chopped a girl's body up & stuffed it in a suitcase, the other separated his wife's body from her head & dumped them - miles apart - in the desert.
When I went to write the latest blog, I selected, quite by chance, July 2007, so off I went to THM to see what I could find that may interest readers.
Lo & behold, the Newcastle GUKPT came up, which was won by a chap I knew very well, & shared many a table with - Mazhar Nawab. Now this chap did scare me a bit. For starters, he had two mobile phones. Quite normal now, 2 Moby's, but then it was something usually limited to individuals who sold chemical substances of various kinds. So I thought that would be a great event to write about, it had some other decent names I know very well, too - Rick Trigg, Simon Zach, Surinder, Steve Liu, Pete Singleton, Thewy etc.
However, google yielded two nasty surprises.......
http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/local/wedding-party-gunman-jailed-for-six-years-1-4233519
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2931666/Husband-stabbed-wife-death-Bowie-knife-frenzied-attack-lay-bed-just-month-freed-early-jail.html
Whoops. As I had just written a blog about two poker players who committed murder, I thought maybe The Business might not approve of me suggesting the game was full of wrong 'uns........
And of course it's not. But there are some characters, some loveable rogues, & that's no bad thing.
One chap I know very well did 18 years, & his nick was "The Butcher". Go figure. He ran a spieler in South London, & I won a £5,000 cash pot there one night. Access to this place was via a fire escape & over a roof - it was well dodgy - & now I was worried about how I could exit the place safely with all that cash. No worries - The Butcher offered me a lift to the station. In his big red Rolls Royce. Never been so scared in my life, if he had said "boo" I'd have given him the £5k, no questions asked.
I did eventually ask him what he did 18 years for. "Shoplifting" he said. Who am I to argue?......
I played a lot - still do from time to time - with a geezer who always appears on the results sheets as "Anon". Timeshare fraud, 22 years inside.
An old mate of mine from Walsall was Peter. One day I met his son who addressed him as "Brian". I enquired why he called "Peter" Brian, & he explained that "Peter" was not his name, it was his trade - "a "Peter" or "Peterman" was a safebreaker. Oh, I seeeeeeee.
Another old poker character is Mick "The Clock" Cook. His nick came from the suggestion that he used to be a lookout man on robberies - because these guys "clock" people.
Anyway, you've started me off now.
Enough.
mr white