Games - Dave Ulliott

Home > Listing Index > Games > Dave Ulliott

	Games - Dave Ulliott

Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott (born January 4, 1954 in Hull, England) is a professional poker player.

Early years

Ulliott, the son of a truck driver, began playing poker at the age of 16, although he pursued a different career at first. He worked as a jeweler and pawnbroker while playing cash games on the side. By the 1990s nobody in England would play with him, so in 1996 he switched to tournament poker and began playing in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Nickname

Ulliott got his nickname of "Devilfish" from friend and spectator Stevie Au-Yeung when playing heads up with Men "The Master" Nguyen. The devil fish, or tako, is a poisonous fish that can kill people when ingested, if not properly prepared. Likewise, Ulliott believes that if his opponents are not properly prepared, he will defeat them. He wears large rings that say "devil" and "fish" on his two hands which he created himself. His nickname prior to then was "Dave the Clock" because he used a grandfather clock as a buy-in to a local game in England.

Celebrity Status

He became a minor celebrity in the United Kingdom in 1999 after winning the first Late Night Poker Grand Final, defeating Dave "Karizma" Welch in the final heads-up confrontation. He also made the final table of Late Night Poker's second Grand Final, but made an early exit. Despite playing in the remaining four series of the show, he never made the final table again.

He is almost certainly the best-known British poker player at present, even more so than 1990 WSOP Champion Mansour Matloubi of Wales. His biggest prize, however, came with the Jack Binion World Poker Open stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), a no limit Texas hold 'em tournament in which he won first prize and almost $600,000.

In the inaugural edition of PokerPlayer magazine (October 2005) Ulliott was voted #9 on their Top 10 Poker Legends List.

Ulliott is arguably the best pot-limit Omaha hold'em player in the world. He won the WSOP title for the event in 1997 and has finished in 2nd place five times. In all tournaments combined he has finished in the money more than 35 times since 1997.

As of 2006, Ulliott has won over $3,400,000 in live tournament play, making him the top money winning English player in history.

Trivia

Ulliott has long campaigned against smoking in poker tournaments. On the other hand he has pointed out he is fond of a few drinks of beer.
The foreign players he admires the most are Johnny "Oriental Express" Chan, Phil Hellmuth Jr, Erik Seidel, Howard "The Professor" Lederer and Annie Duke. The European players he admires the most are Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani
and "The Flying Dutchman" Marcel Lüske
.
In his sparetime he enjoys playing the piano and guitar.
He enjoys blues music as well as AC/DC, The Rolling Stones and Fine Young Cannibals (vocalist Roland Gift is a close friend of his.)
He is also a good friend of Jimmy White
(Dave's own snooker break is 73.)
His favourite movies are Once Upon a Time in America, Heat and A Fish Called Wanda.
He is also the only player to have ever won tournaments on Late Night Poker, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker.
He is a spokesman for online poker site . (He was recommended for the deal by Mansour Matloubi to Russ Hamilton, and was offered 1% of the company for the deal.)
Ulliott resides with his wife in Hull, England. He has seven children.

==World Series of Poker results==

==Late Night Poker results==

==World Poker Tour results==

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Dave Ulliott ]

Searches on eBay

dave ulliott