David (Dave) E. “El Blondie” Colclough was born on 4 March 1964 in Carmarthen, South Wales and now lives in Birmingham, England.

David Colclough was a Welsh professional poker player who, prior to becoming a poker professional, worked as a computer programmer for a variety of companies such as the Post Office, the National Health Service, the Inland Revenue and Fujitsu.

David left computing after the 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) where he came in second at the 2000 World Series of Poker $2,000 pot limit hold’em event.

Colclough became known as a skilled player in all poker variants and as illustrated by the European Rankings since their creation in 2000. David’s fame began when he first became widely known due to numerous appearances on the Late Night Poker television series, including the season 5 grand final.

In 2003 he was voted the European Poker Player of the Year after continued success. He was eventually inducted into the European Poker Players Hall of Fame during 2005, and at the age of 41 was the youngest inductee up to that time.

Colclough had a final table appearance at the World Poker Tour’s third season Grand Prix de Paris event, where he won €84,890 ($103,507).

In May 2005, he reached the semi-finals of the World Heads-Up Poker Championship, earning €20,000.

Colclough was inducted into the European Poker Players Hall of Fame during 2005, and at the age of 41 was the youngest inductee at that time.

In 2005, Colclough spent much of his time travelling with and training Brian Wilson, who went on to win a bracelet in that year’s World Series of Poker tournament. Wilson continually credits Colclough for his achievements.

In 2006, Colclough’s launched his ‘BlondePoker.com’ website which is his own online poker room. On the BlondePoker.com forums, Colclough is mainly known as “Monty Burns”. As of 2007 last year, Dave had won over $2,300,000 (US Dollars) in live tournament play.

In his personal life, Dave Cloclough has one daughter, named Sian from an ex-wife named Anna. He married for a second time to Rhowena Colclough (nee MacCuish, born 1 April 1980), a former glamour model, known as “Mrs. C.” . Mts. C. went on to present a show for William Hill on Sky 425 until the channel closed in 2006. Mrs. Colclough was a fine poker player and became a semi-finalist in the Poker Dome Challenge.

It is rumoured that Dave and Mrs. C. seperated in 2007 after Colclough claimed to have caught her in bed with another man who was a friend of hers. This was reputedly posted by Dave on his won Poker forum which he evetually deleted and insisted that there was no break up between the two. generally, it is not know whether Dave and Rhowena have gotten back together again or have made their separation final.