In this weeks confessions series Lee Davy takes the time to ponder his fleeting experiences with one of poker’s all time greats: Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot.

It’s July 2010, PR Newswire have sent a press release to all and sundry.

“Devilfish – The Life & Times of a Poker Legend” tells the remarkable rags to riches, prison to penthouse story of one of the world’s best players. The long wait for the eagerly anticipated autobiography of one of the world’s most colorful characters, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot, is over.

I had been in the industry for a matter of months. The Editor of Poker Pro magazine asks me to interview him. Talk about a baptism of fire. I was so excited. Like many poker enthusiasts, from the UK, I had grown up watching the Devilfish owning Late Night Poker.