12 rounds with the Devilfish Poker showman Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott thinks the UK is still a way behind the US, but, as he tells Stephen McDowell, he’s happy to lead the charge

You’d expect someone who’s won more than $1.5 million on poker tables in two years, and until recently the only Brit with a WSOP bracelet, to have a number of faces. But the one we’ve got today is not the snarling, eyeballing, unsettling Devilfish of late-night TV fame, but the nice Mr Ulliott, of Kingston-upon-’ull.

This is perhaps surprising, given that Britain’s greatest poker player is a marked man, the guy everybody wants to beat these days – like the Ringo Kid, the old gunfighter who can’t escape his reputation.