Lee Davy sits down with Dusk till Dawn Club Director, Simon Trumper, to talk about his campaign to get the recently deceased Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott into the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame.

A few months ago I was playing in a card room in Dublin. As I folded my big blind I looked at the walls surrounding me. They were covered with photos of some of the games legends: Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Simon Trumper.

Dusk till Dawn’s Club Director may not be the type of name you would flick in with the likes of Brunson and Hellmuth, but the fact that his photo was up there said two things to me: either he was remembered as one of the pioneers of our game, or they simply ran out of photos. I like to think it was the former.

There was another British star on that wall. His name was Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) and World Poker Tour (WPT) winner was great friends with Trumper. And so it was great to see his old pal campaigning for Devilfish to be inducted into the 2015 Poker Hall of Fame, by wearing a t-shirt that said: