Paul 'the hangman' Roper

careca

Article about him in todays indo, pg 14. Paddy Power are paying for his wedding, because of his winnings.

clint_silver

Hes using his winnings from the open rather then paddys explicitly paying for his wedding. linky

Culchie

I'm impressed by Paul's PR machine he has in place, he's hardly out of the Sligo papers ... fair play to him.

He's had some nice results lately in fairness, and only for a brain fart moment over in France, wasn't he amongst the chip leaders over there approaching the money?

Has a young family afaik so good luck to him.

NickyOD

If you close your eyes while playing snooker, every once in a while you pot something.

ionapaul

I wonder how much self promotion is involved? Fair play to him if so.

smurph

NickyOD wrote:

If you close your eyes while playing snooker, every once in a while you pot something.

I thought he played very well in the Irish Open and in fairness, Id give my left teeth to be picking up €26,000 cheque, from Cards, but there you go.

5starpool

He seems to evoke similiar responses from players that have played with him as Eddie the Eagle, and that is mostly bewilderment that they can do well in tournaments. Seems that they are doing something right though. It might look ugly but it seems to be effective. It can't be all luck I suppose.

mewso

NickyOD wrote:

If you close your eyes while playing snooker, every once in a while you pot something.

and if you pot a ball some players will tell you in a round-about way that you are crap and were lucky to pot it

Culchie

musician wrote:

and if you pot a ball some players will tell you in a round-about way that you are crap and were lucky to pot it

and you'd say, yeh maybe, but I just won €26000:p


I never met the guy, although his reputation certainly goes before him.

ionapaul

I've never played with Paul, but Eddie the Eagle either has a huge stack within the starting two levels or is gone home, I assume Paul is the same if he plays using the same unorthodox and agressive style.

Fatboydim

What Paul has that most of us don't is a complete and total lack of fear.
Ironically I placed ten bets on Betfair for the Irish open... Dave O'C, Paul Lecky... KP, Joe Beevers... Andy etc... I also put a few on Paul Roper. He came nearest. The reason being whilst Paul has many flaws in his game... and does some of the most stupid things at times... He is learning... and he is clearly getting better, and more than anything he is hard to play against. How can you get a read on him? His super aggresive style could take him to a final table. If he learns how to hold on to chips when he gets them... watch out.

Hitman Actual

Fatboydim wrote:

If he learns how to hold on to chips when he gets them... watch out.

*IF* he learns... the same could be said of an unmentionable player in the Fitz!

Fatboydim

lenny_leonard wrote:

*IF* he learns... the same could be said of an unmentionable player in the Fitz!

Would that be Player X by any chance ?

DeVore

I agree with Fatboy. Paul is super aggressive and is learning when and where that approach might not be the best idea. 5Star, he may have found some new way of playing but he doesnt understand it as he doesnt really bother with those probability things. All the same, he's hard to play against because you know any hand you get into with him, you may well end up facing an early tournament decision.
He's an incredible self promotionalist too...

DeV.

sunzz

Played with paul a good few times he's a nice chap kinda of person as someone said "makes a move when he doesn't know he's doing it"

He is a keen business man and owns a variety of businesses in sligo I think his play reflects on this, he's reckless at times becuase quite frankly he doesn't need to worry about the money. being fearless is a nice thing. He plays to win not to place so he will make those all in moves more than most.

He had a horrible bad beat in the open and placed well in monte carlo.

If he took some time out to read some books about probability etc etc to add to his somewhat raw talent I think he could be a real winner.

Kinda of guy that goes deep or goes early.

Nice guy and great PR i mean he paid 15k to get his own telly crew to come to a mediocre event just to promote himself, cant fault the guys ambition.

NickyOD

When it comes to tournament poker, if you say that someone is "the kind of guy that goes deep or goes early", it usally means he is an aggressive accumulator early on and alters his tournament strategy in the later stages of the tournament in order to make the final table, but Paul is an overaggressive gambler to the end and at some point in every tournament he gets his chips in with the worst of it and needs to get lucky to continue, and it's usually a situation he should have gotten away from. The reason Wong made the move with JQ at the Irish open was because Paul had constantly been "at it" and had already gotten very lucky with A9 V AK.

Don't get me wrong, I think he's a nice man, but I've seen players in our freeroll with more control. His exit to Raymer in the WSOP showed how far off the mark he really is.

ntlbell

NickyOD wrote:

His exit to Raymer in the WSOP showed how far off the mark he really is.

What happened?

NickyOD

ntlbell wrote:

What happened?

Walked into a flush that was as transparrant as tracing paper.

ntlbell

NickyOD wrote:

Walked into a flush that was as transparrant as tracing paper.

is it on any of the episodes?

Hectorjelly

ntlbell wrote:

is it on any of the episodes?

yeah I cant remember which one though. Its actually pretty funny, theres 4 hearts out there and raymer calls a bet or bets (something like that anyway) and the roper asks in all seriousness, Do you have a flush?

ntlbell

Hectorjelly wrote:

yeah I cant remember which one though. Its actually pretty funny, theres 4 hearts out there and raymer calls a bet or bets (something like that anyway) and the roper asks in all seriousness, Do you have a flush?

hmm i don't fancy going through them all, can you remember if it was early on or?

roryc

Ive only played with Paul once, knocking him out of Drogheda. tbh i though he was absolutely terrible, and I doubled up off him twice in the space of five minutes, knocking him out the second time. He seemed super loose and made a terrible call in the second hand running his tens into my aces... but results say a lot, so clearly he's got some skill.

good luck to him, he was ul in the IO.

ntlbell

it's episode 1 if anyone's intrested in watching the hand against raymer.

BigDragon

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Culchie

Flipper got stuck into him as well on his blog.

jd

em, what's the story with him and old firebreath?

NickyOD

BigDragon wrote:

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awwww! :rolleyes:

roryc

haha.. long story, but I think he totally outplayed dave. what a class act

ionapaul

Culchie wrote:

Flipper got stuck into him as well on his blog.

Wow, just read that. Maybe there is a method to his madness, Gigabet style? Or maybe if you can afford to buy into every event, it is no wonder you build a monster stack occasionally and bust out early more often than not!

If he really spent €15k hiring a camera crew to follow him, and is paying for a PR consultant, I doubt he has made any money from this poker lark at all.

The C Kid

ionapaul wrote:

Wow, just read that. Maybe there is a method to his madness, Gigabet style?

This made me laugh, much!

cardshark202

There are a lot of players on the tournament scene with 'good' records when all they are are idiots who have got lucky a few times.