Mad Marty

I have been dealing with Marty for the past few weeks over the phone and decided it was time for a face to face meeting. Before I was due to meet with him and his partner Katherine in a Grosvenor casino in Manchester for some dinner, I thought I would prepare by googling his name.

Google threw back some YouTube videos and links to some tournaments which he has played in. I spent half an hour flicking through the videos and came to the conclusion that the man was crazy!

We met up for a bite to eat and chatted about all things Man United and gambling in a good humoured civilized kind of way. Just as I began to think to myself maybe this man only does it for the camera, the following conversation took place.

Marty: How are you this evening?

Waitress: Not too bad I am just back from holidays

Marty: Really? Go anywhere nice?

Waitress: Las Vegas it was lovely.

Marty: Vegas! No way, I built Vegas!! Where did you stay?

Waitress: We stayed at the Luxor, it was lovely.

Marty: The Luxor! You are not going to believe this but I did the glazing there. I was working for a firm called Niall Connolly Windows from Manchester. My mate Phil went over with me! I actually put the last sheet of glass on the peak of the pyramid ! My mate Phil held the ladder (it was a very long ladder).

Waitress : Really that's amazing.

Marty : You will never believe what happened, when I was just about to set the pane in place a gust of wind came and blew it out of my hand and it fell 634 feet to the ground and missed my mate Phil's head by about 2 inches!

Waitress: That was lucky wasn't it!

Marty: Not really it went down through his shoulder and sliced him in half, killed him stone dead.

Marty Wilson - Poker legend.