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Date: 06/07/2008

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Swimming with the Devil Fish by Des Wilson

Author: Des Wilson
Category: Poker
ISBN: 9781405089524
Year Published: 2006
Extent: 352pp
Status: Available
Our Price: Ł10.99

Dave "The Devil Fish" Ulliott has taken the poker world by storm since beginning to play at the age of 16. A world-class player, he is one of the most feared players on the ever-burgeoning global poker circuit. The Devil Fish is a working-class man from Hull who was a petty criminal at 16, a safe-breaker who spent his 21st birthday in prison, and then a pawnbroker in Hull who's turned his gambling hobby into a hugely lucrative career. Dave Ulliott was the first British player to win a $500,000 poker event in the US, won the first Late Night Poker series on Channel 4, and is the face of Ultimatebet.com, one of the biggest online poker sites. This powerful and revealing book uncovers the amazing world of professional poker in Britain, and for the first time tells the extraordinary stories of the country's top poker professionals. It is a must-read for anyone who is part of, or fascinated by, the growth of professional poker from yesterday's illegal back-street card games to the cyberspace and television phenomenon of today. Inc 16 pages B&W photos

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Pokerplayer Magazine review

The route to the top isnt always an easy one though and Swimming with the Devilfish chronicles this through profiles and anecdotes from the leading UK poker players, including a warts-and-all look at the rise of Dave Devilfish Ulliott, from petty street criminal to multi-million tourney winner.

Familiar names like The Hendon Mob, John Shipley, Dave Colclough and Lucy Rokach all get the Wilson treatment, but its the Runyonesque characters that sit in the periphery that make the book such a fascinating read its like lifting a rock and finding a teeming ants nest underneath.

As an antidote to the endless run of American publications weve had to suffer over the last few years, its a book that finally puts Britain on the literary poker map and to say that you should order a copy immediately is less a request, more a demand.

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