DeVore in the well

why cant you stop yourself three and four betting me when I'm sitting to your left and and you know I am not capable of folding

I hate you so much.

AND you still didnt make the money even when I dumped chips to you.

DeV.

Why dont you and Reggie get along?

Reggie and I get along fine. I put a huge amount of importance on being civil with people. Reggie seems to give it almost no thought. In those respects we will always be at odds.

Who`s idea was Green Joker Poker (the online skin)?
The three people who still own it. Mike, Brian and I. We were talking about doing a skin for Antesup (Mike and I), while Green Joker Poker (Mike and Brian)
were also looking for a way to expand. We merged the two companies and created one online skin.

If you had to change one part of your poker repotoire what would it be?

Overcalling with QJo. Its euwwwwwwwwwwwww.

If you had to play one tournament every week live what would it be?
CHL's 100 or Fitz 100+100.


If you didnt live in Ireland where would you go?

Amsterdam, Malta or Thailand.


What is your biggest disappointment been in Poker?

Probably losing heads up to Len for the spot on the 6 Nations team. I really wanted to play that.


If you had a choice between Final-tabling and coming 9th in the WSOP or one of your friends winning it, and knowing that you could never tell them that you were the reason they won it, which would you choose?

Thats a hard one to answer truthfully. There are very few poker players I would do that for. All the same, if some genie is going to wave his hands and have me come 9th... it wouldnt be my achievement would it?
I dont know, i'd like to think I'd give it to my friend but then again the money is a lot for 9th



If you had a choice between stacking Phil Ivey at the World series or Successfully bluffing and showing Mike out of a huge pot at the WSOP which would it be?

Stacking Phil Ivey. I can bluff/stack Mike any day of the week.

Which poster annoys you on boards the most?

I'm not going to name names but the ones who never lift a finger to contribute to a community but who criticism and complain about the way others do, they really hack me off. Whingers who contribute nothing basically.
(not referring to the poker forum here btw).

Snide sniping people who ask caustic questions rather then come out and put their opinion on the line and stand over it.

People who see Boards as a place they can take take take from and never give anything back.

Thankfully there are few of them about and very few on the poker forum.


Knowing that you have the power to do so why isnt there a "Devore" forum?

What would we put in it? Sounds horribly egotistical and also a recipe for a completely empty forum


Who is the worst boardsie that you have played with?

I hate putting names to stuff like this.
The one thing I will say is that the average player on boards is a lot better then the average player.


DeV.

What do you think of the evolution of the Poker Forum in Boards over the last 2 - 3 years.

It has followed the text book lines of all forums believe it or not. There are the frontiersmen (the people who set the place up and established it), the settlers (the people who arrive shortly afterwards and start using the area) and the colonisers (the large numbers of people who arrive and want things done a different way).

A group called Suited Aces were largely responsible for a number of changes in poker in Dublin. One was getting this place set up (Musician & Hysepher and others), another was showing that there was a brand of player who wanted a well structured deepstacked freeze-out with our freeze-outs in the Merrion. Then arrived all the Fitz people and the Boardsie who were here already and played poker. Then arrived the masses of SE, Student, country-based players etc etc.
When that happens the first group gets swamped by the second and ultimately the third. Everone either adapts and survives or the first (and maybe second) groups move on complaining about how its "not like the old days".

Would you consider yourself a better cash or Tournament player?

Oh God, tournament every time


Why do you think there is a decline in numbers for the GJP Monthly game (personally I think it's a great tournament)

There are too many options for the players in Dublin. Too many well structured games around that buyin.

DeV.

Do you think having a favourite hand (non primary) is -EV

Having a favourite anything in your head cant be -EV. Only actions have consequences.
But I think there is a game-theory argument to be made for saying "whenever I get dealt, Q3o I'm going to play it like I have AA". Thats more about metagaming and game-theory then what you are asking.
I try not to fall into love with any hand.


One of your positive attributes appears to be your charitable nature, so with this in mind which charity is your favourite and why? (I'll give 20 quid to the one of your choice if you answer is good, my word = my bond)

I like Barretstown because they are focused not only on the kid but also his siblings and friends. They make the quality of life better for them. There is no point in saving kids lives if those lives are full of nothing but treatment and pain.

Mr Pudding introduced me to the Butterfly Kids one year during SSF. I looked into them and they have a terrible ailment which has very specific problems it raises. Helping them was a lot of fun, the people behind the charity were absolutely gobsmacked and couldnt have been nicer.


Ok Poker! Have you improved this year at all or are you stagnate (like so many on this site)

I dont know if I've improved. I think I have but everyone else is getting pretty good too so I think relatively I have gone backwards. Which doesnt feel nice.

Do you think poker is helping create a lot of, soon to be middle aged overweight resentful batchelors in this country?

No. They have been there for generations in Ireland.


Music.
Can you sing , dance , play an instrument spearately or at the same time?

I can sing. I'm told I have a good voice but curiously since I can address any sized audience without preparation and talk on many subjects without breaking a sweat, I baulk at singing in front of so much as another human being. Its very personal to me, dont ask me why!

Bragging?
Do youy have any sporting achievements you'd like to take this opportunity to brag about.

I have a silver junior All Ireland medal for 100M sprint clocking 11.0 seconds on the day, which was my life time best. Unfortunately I also ripped both tendons on my hips that same race, had to sit out the off season and never returned to training as I went to college soon after. 11s flat is the qualifying time for the Olympics and I would dearly have loved to represent the country at the 100M sprints at the game.

Other then that, I have walked accross the country and cycled accross the continent.


OMAHA.
Do you see a momentum gathering on this game in the last year?

Yes, though its always been the game for the "Big Game". I think its a case that more people are stepping up to play at those levels and hence the game is growing. Very few people play 1k/2k NLH.



Who is boards biggest rival for general online jibberjabber?

I dont know of many Irish ones (Thumped etc). I guess internationally it would be MySpace/Facebook or something like 2+2 or SomethingAwful.
None of those are really competitors to us, its very hard to compete with Boards.


Which forum possess the owners of the biggest egos? (no brainer)

Probably us (Boards) or do you mean forum on Boards? In which case, who are its owners? I'm confused


Do you have any plans to tie the knot in the next few years? (that bio clock is ticking, ticking)

Absolutely no plans. Who the hell would put up with my lifestyle??


Do you perform marriage ceremonies between MODS?

No, thats Vexorg's job. I do get droit de signeur though!


Do you think actual retarded people get offended when boards people call bad play as retarded. Why is this type of comment tolerated?

I hope not. Its like gamers calling someone "ghey". I have a pretty good sense for when someone is being offensive and when something is just PC gone mad.


The feedback forum, it appears to be the lounge for Mods and mod wannabes to hang out and back slap each other for feline artistry, what is it really for?

Feedback. Believe it or not, genuine feedback gets read, noticed and acted upon. Most of the threads there are NOT feedback, they are "waaaaaaaaaah something bad happened to me and I dont like it".


I see you don't drive a car, If you did drive a car who would be your top 5 people you'd like to mow down?

Can I hit Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley at the same time?
George Bush.
The current pope.
Osama Bin Laden.


What in all that is unholy in Liverpool does Devore mean?
When I was chair of the SciFi in Trinity we invited a little known author over to speak. He had just published a book called "Chung Kuo". Its an absolutely brilliant book by the way.

I identified strongly with one of the lead characters in the first book who's name was Devore. Subsequently he goes on to become a psychotic killer and rapist amongst other things, so the similarities end at the first book, I hope!

When I first joined Usenet (waaaay back in 1990 ). I took the name as my nom de plume and wrote a lot of activist stuff under it (which landed me in the CIA's database... on the plus side, they send me christmas cards. Jesus that sounds nuts when I write it down but its all true, lol!). So the name stuck and I now respond to "Dev" as a nickname.


DeV.

You play, from my limited experience, a very, very aggressive game. Why adopt that over another type of play. Very general... but I am sure you can run with it. It pays better? Other types bore you or don't give you that "rush"?

My GO instructor (a little japanese Mr Miagi style character who is a 9th Dan at the game) told me once that I was the "Donald Rumfield" of GO because I play it so aggressively. I didnt think I played Poker that aggro, but lately people have said that more and more to me.
Aggro style is a winning style for very simple reasons. You have two ways of winning the pot.

One thing I realised (like getting hit on the head with a hammer) is that poker isnt a game. Its two games. The first is a game of chicken. When/If thats a tie, there is a second more complicated game of chance with cards which breaks the tie.


You mentioned on another thread reference your AIB credit card that you bought a domain... anything interesting?

Yes.

You are going to write a book and be published. What is it going to be about?

Actually I'm considering writing a book on the history of poker in Irelad and the Irish in Poker.
There are other books I have considered writing and would like to write at some point in my life. Fiction and non-fiction.


DeV.