He is the opposite of Mike the Mouth, in a manner of speaking. If you become the "target of affection" of Mike, you would be barraged with a mouthful of verbalizations that MIGHT force you to tell your seatmate, "Can you kindly hold on to my belt so that I woud not be able to stand up, because if I do, I'll go there and punch that guy a dzen times?"

In the case of Alan Betson, this guy is fun to be with, he is either amusing or witty, depending on the kind of person you are. One writer for a gambling mag once said, that Betson "has probably said five of the 10 funniest things I?ve ever heard at a poker table"- and that ladies and gents, is a direct quote.
Before you think he is all clown and zero poker player, let me just give these. In 2005, he placed second in
NL Holdem at Amsterdam- Holland Casino if you want to know the exact venue. That same year but earlier, he placed second in Dublin, the Irish Open, which is one of the more
prestigious events on the world map of poker. Naturally, it was a cash position, and that my friends, IS NO JOKE.