{"id":275,"date":"2019-07-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/poker-loses-one-of-the-best-as-mad-marty-wilson-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2019-07-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T00:00:00","slug":"poker-loses-one-of-the-best-as-mad-marty-wilson-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gbc.ng\/index.php\/poker-loses-one-of-the-best-as-mad-marty-wilson-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"POKER LOSES ONE OF THE BEST AS \u2018MAD\u2019 MARTY WILSON PASSES AWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poker loses a star as \u2018Mad\u2019 Marty Wilson passes away after a long battle with cancer.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Google \u2018Marty Wilson<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018Poker<\/em>\u2019, a synopsis from his Wikipedia page, screams to life.<\/p>\n

\u2018Nickname: Mad.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

Assuming Wilson didn\u2019t earn his nickname after spending time in Wolverhampton Insane Asylum, consider that he received it for being a cracking laugh.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, \u2018Mad\u2019 Marty Wilson, lost his six-month battle against cancer. His wife Katherine was with him when he died. The outpouring of condolences, love and support prove the hypothesis \u2013 he was a cracking laugh.<\/p>\n

I was never fortunate enough to meet Wilson. I saw him once; contemplated approaching him for an interview, but my throat constricted, my entrails froze, and fear kicked in, the way it does when I think of pounding the drums with the stalwarts of the game.<\/p>\n

I won\u2019t get another chance.<\/p>\n

My abiding memory of Wilson was the way he managed the royalty and rabble on the\u00a0partypoker<\/strong>\u00a0Poker Den, the televised poker show that aired on Sky Sports. Few wear an air of authority while at the same time tickling your balls with a feather duster \u2013 specs perched on the top of his bonce, black and white striped tie worn loud and proud down the centre of his beige suit \u2013 the man was mint, and he played the role to perfection.<\/p>\n

Wilson was \u2018old school\u2019, coming from the same stock as Padraig Parkinson, Jesse May, Dave \u2018Devilfish\u2019 Ulliot, Victoria Coren-Mitchell and The Hendon Mobsters. If you lived in the U.K. during the 90s and loved your poker, then you knew him as well as you knew Saint & Greavsie, Big Daddy and Nora Batty.<\/p>\n

PokerNews\u2019 Paul Seaton wrote a touching piece on Wilson\u2019s passing, stating that he was responsible for teaching Tom Cruise, Phil \u2018The Power\u2019 Taylor, Michael Greco and Helen Chamberlain how to play poker. Only Wilson could conspire for a writer to include \u2018Maverick<\/em>\u2018 in that best of British list.<\/p>\n

He was also a dab hand on the table.<\/p>\n

The greatest hits of \u2018Mad\u2019 Marty Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n

1998: Wins a $1k at the Carnivale of Poker in Vegas for $68,400
\n 2000: Finished 4th in the final of Late Night Poker Season 3
\n 2003: Finished 3rd in the \u00a31,525 European Poker Classics for \u00a320,265
\n 2005: Wins the AUD 550 PLO at the Aussie Millions for $22,962
\n 2005: Wins a \u00a31k at the Grosvenor in Blackpool for \u00a340,340
\n 2008: Finishes 9\/2218 in the WSOP $1k Seniors Event for $34,312
\n 2010: Finishes 17\/708 in the Irish Open for \u20ac18,300<\/p>\n

As you would expect, tributes poured out in support of Wilson, and we will leave you with one of the best, from one of the best.<\/p>\n

\n