Devil Of A Poker Show

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Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott enters the television presenter business

UK poker fans can look forward to some typically entertaining and boisterous action from poker pro Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott with the imminent launch of a five part, thirty minute television series called “How to Become a Poker Millionaire.” Ulliott will present the show, which has been produced for ITV Wales by the Bafta-winning team at Red & Black Films.

The show will follow Ulliott as he meets, tests and trains four previously losing players with the objective changing at least one into a competent and winning poker player.

Readers can get a sense of the content by visiting the preview at http://www.redandblackfilms.com/flash/main.htm , which shows Ulliott meeting the four contestants and introducing them to the initial tests.

The Devilfish reputation for brutal honesty is in evidence in statements like: “Let’s see if it’s the thickest person who gets knocked out first. Will it be the one with the worst memory? Will it be the one with the worst maths ability? Let’s find out what skills we really need to win this!”

Pre-publicity statements from ITV describe how the players involved were given an IQ test, a math skills test and a psychological assessment, and had their playing style, behaviour under pressure and even their sex lives studied.

The show features interviews with other well known poker stars, including Layne Flack, Phil Hellmuth, Brian Townsend, Chris Ferguson, Hevad Khan, Phil Ivey, Phil Laak, Allen Cunningham and Howard Lederer.

Ulliott uses his online experience (he is involved in a listed London online gambling company called Devilfish Gaming) to put his charges through their paces by giving them a finite starting bankroll to play online at the lowest limits. Each week the two players with the lowest bankrolls left will face each other heads-up until one is eliminated. The overall winner will take all the bankrolls and gets a three month personal tuition course from Ulliott to boot.

Ulliott says of the project: "It was a real boot camp for the participants and I took no prisoners. There’s laughter and tears, good poker and bad poker, and viewers will get to learn many of the tricks of the high-stakes poker trade which took me years and a lot of money to learn."

Über World Series of Poker (WSOP):

Die World Series of Poker, oder kurz WSOP, ist eine Reihe von Pokerturnieren, die jedes Jahr in Las Vegas ausgetragen werden.

Die World Series of Poker finden jährlich im Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas statt.

Die World Series of Poker ist die grösste und prestigeträchtigste Pokerveranstaltung der Welt. Mit einer umfassenden Liste von Turnieren in allen wichtigen Pokervarianten ist die WSOP das am längsten laufende Pokerturnier der Welt und geht auf das Jahr 1970 zurück.

Darüber hinaus hat die WSOP bahnbrechende Allianzen in den Bereichen Rundfunk, digitale Medien und Unternehmenssponsoring gebildet und die Marke mit der Einführung der WSOP Europe im Jahr 2007 und der WSOP Asia-Pacific im Jahr 2013 sowie der WSOP International Circuit Series im Jahr 2015 erfolgreich international ausgebaut.

Ursprünglich wurden die Tourniere in Las Vegas Downtown im Binion's Horseshoe Casino ausgetragen. Im Jahre 2005 kaufte Caesars den Brand WSOP. Seit diesem Datum werden die Pokermeisterschaften im Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino durchgeführt.

Gewinner der letzten Jahre des WSOP-Championship-Mainevent

2020: Damian Salas 2019: Hossein Ensan 2018: John Cynn 2017: Scott Blumstein 2016: Qui Nguyen 2015: Joe McKeehen 2014: Martin Jacobson 2013: Ryan Riess 2012: Greg Merson 2011: Pius Heinz 2010: Jonathan Duhamel 2009: Joe Cada 2008: Peter Eastgate 2007: Jerry Yang 2006: Jamie Gold 2005: Joe Hachem 2004: Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer 2003: Chris Moneymaker 2002: Robert Varkonyi 2001: Carlos Mortensen 2000: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson 1999: J.J. "Noel" Furlong 1998: Scotty Nguyen 1997: Stu Ungar 1996: Huck Seed 1995: Dan Harrington 1994: Russ Hamilton 1993: Jim Bechtel 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi 1991: Brad Daugherty 1990: Mansour Matloubi 1989: Phil Hellmuth Jr. 1988: Johnny Chan 1987: Johnny Chan 1986: Berry Johnston 1985: Bill Smith 1984: Jack Keller 1983: Tom McEvoy 1982: Jack Strauss 1981: Stu Ungar 1980: Stu Ungar 1979: Hal Fowler 1978: Bobby Baldwin 1977: Doyle Brunson 1976: Doyle Brunson 1975: Sailor Roberts 1974: Johnny Moss 1973: Puggy Pearson 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston 1971: Johnny Moss 1970: Johnny Moss

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