'The Fullring Nits' wants your chips!

Liverpool Winter Festival has an integrated Team Competition. Meet the latest team trio to enter a very prestigious competition - and these guys are hungry for your chips; 'The Fullring Nits'!

- Team captain Martin Rasch, sorry that I’m asking but is there a spelling mistake in your team name? 'The Fullring Nits' – is that correct spelling?
Ha-ha.
You got it all right. Haven’t you heard of us previously? 'The Fullring Nits'. Las Vegas, Monte Carlo, Bahamas – we turned up once and we will never be forgotten.

- Is that right?

No, just kidding! The three of us are mainly fullring stake grinders from no limit 1-2 to 10-20, including some successful and less successful attempts on even higher stakes. The guys are pretending to have a nitty image on the table, although that’s not always the truth. As we’re an ambitious trio, who is ready to challenge for the Team Competition glory, we needed a special name on our special team. Here we are , 'The Fullring Nits'!

- Who are the team members?

Mads Amot: 23 years old from Gausdal. Futsal player and pokerspiller
Ole Johan Steinvik: 25 years old from Dombås, sharing a flat with Mads in Oslo.
Martin Rasch: 27 years old from Elverum, football coach and poker player who trying to turn his attention from tournaments into cash games.

- Hmm... I don’t think this trio frightens ’The River’ or ‘Team 10Kings’. You need to play at the top of your game to beat these two teams.


Yeah, but let me finish then. . . I was about to give you some facts about my two team mates. OJ has spent a crazy number of hours playing online poker the last few years, and he has taken down most of his opponents. The guy has done very well lately, although he doesn’t play too many tournaments. However, he is the reigning Norwegian champion online (Riverblaster). He also cashed in APPT Macau 2008. A talented guy who could be a chippie after Day 1 in Main Event Liverpool.
Mads came 4th in Norwegian championship Limit Holdem 2008, and he cashed also in 2007. He has been dipping his toes in different prize pools lately, but haven’t made it all the way.

- Do you like the integrated Team Competition?

Yeah, absolutely. It gives added excitement to the Main Event, an extra competition for the players – a lot of prestige on stake. It will be interesting to see how long my team mates can keep their chips stack alive.

- Rumours are saying you are in great online poker form, Martin?

What? Is it a joke, Allan? You see, both my PCs crashed last week...

- Sorry to hear, I thought you had taken a much deserved online break.

True. I can’t complain. I actually won 10KingsPoker’s €3500 GUARANTEED back to back. Always a great feeling to win tournaments, a real confidence booster – although the starting fields were only 72 runners and 68 runners. Thanks for talking me into those tourneys, Allan – definitely value! Ha-ha.

- Been to Liverpool previously?

No, we havent. Definitely looking forward to it despite being Man Utd fans! We are a group of 5-6 guys, and we’ll up for it all. Poker, parties and football. Our travel guide will be Kent Stenseth who has numerous trips to England/Liverpool on his CV, and I’m sure he will be a good city guide.

- LFC fan Kent Stenseth? You better be joking?! I know that dizzy fella very well. If he’s going guide you, you won’t even make it to Circus Casino until Day 2! If he has booked your tickets, make sure you are going to Liverpool Airport and not Stanstead…

Ha-ha! We will keep an eye on Kent. The Fullring Nits is like Fergie’s Man Utd. We might be slow starters, lose a few pots early on - but when the big pots are on the table, don’t count us out.

10KingsPoker is proud to welcome 'The Fullring Nits' to Liverpool Winter Festival!