The board read Kh-Js-5h-Jd-8c and Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott had bet 15,000, leaving himself just a few grand behind. His young opponent, Martins Adeniya, had the decision to make, facing down the fish in an inter-generational hand spanning decades.
Aside from being a below average lounge singer, as demonstrated yesterday when he was let loose on an unguarded microphone, Ulliott has a distinguished poker resume of the old kind - regular big wins before and after the online scene. This month alone Ulliott won the Irish Poker Championship in Galway and the €5,000 Diamond Championship in Paris. A two hour train journey brings him from there to here.
Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott
"I fold" said Adeniya, turning over pocket aces.
"(Northern English expletive deleted) I don't want to show you now..." said Ulliott, showing first an eight and then a ten for two pairs.
Adeniya shrugged, hiding obvious pain, but quickly accepted it and moved on to the next hand. Ulliott offered some words of comfort...
"If you can't fold aces you can't win the tournament" he said, later adding "what you showed me there is you can play poker."
Adeniya may have been flattered by Ulliott now has his chips, up as he is to 30,000.
