Its a great honour

There are a few things that happen to you in life that make you feel really honoured and one such thing happened to be yesterday. I was invited to become a member of the world famous “Stox Poker” coaching team which is one of the greatest honours that has happened to me in poker since I started.

I dont rank achievements or money won because that is merely down to my own efforts and hard work but it really is a great honour when other people recognise you. But the tutors on that team are some of the best poker theoreticians in the world, people like Bryce Paradis, Collin Moshman, Nick Grudzien to name but a few.

It really is such an honour to be compared with these people and asked to join them. In the same way that I was asked to compile high limit theory for 2+2 a few weeks back which goes alongside theory from non other than David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth of all people……need I say more.

The bad news is that I had to turn the offer down for numerous reasons. The main one is that I have tried to make promotional videos before and they are a lot harder than what they look. Talking constantly for 30-40 minutes isnt easy or at least it wasnt for me. Plus my broad northern accent didnt sound too well either and was why I removed my videos from Youtube…..they just sounded so duff and I am not a fluid and snappy talker.

Presentation is everything with these things and I was really sorry to have to turn this down. Speaking of turning things down, this was not all that I was forced to turn down this week. The world famous Gamblers Book Shop in Las Vegas requested an interview with me about my new book on Roulette called “Killer Roulette”. This book is pretty explosive as it delves into the seedier side of the game and cheating and advantage play…..not to mention downright theft.

In fairness to some of the people who were in that book who were also non too happy to be in it despite me using aliases then I declined the interview as there would have been too many questions that I would either have had to answer wrongly on purpose or declined….which wouldnt be fair to them.

But despite me turning down both offers, I still have a nice feeling today.

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