- The Hendon Mob
The Hendon Mob are a group of four professional
poker players fromLondon ,England :*
Joe Beevers
*Barny Boatman
*Ross Boatman
*Ram Vaswani The name of the group was first publicised by the "
Evening Standard " newspaper inSeptember 2000 .Joe Beevers is the only member of the group who actually comes from
Hendon (a district of London) but the others played in Hendon.The Hendon Mob describe
John Kabbaj as their unofficial fifth member. Several other European professionals, includingHarry Demetriou "(Koumari Boy)",Padraig Parkinson "(Padraig)",Neil Channing "(Bad Beat)" andJohn Duthie have posted on the group's forum.The Prima Poker Tour
In 2004 and 2005, the Mob was sponsored by
Prima Poker to the tune of $2 million worth of worldwide tournamentbuyin fees. In exchange they played on the online Prima poker-room network. As part of the tour, the Mob challenged four-player teams of various nationalities toheads-up matches, culminating with the UK versus the U.S. in the inauguralPrima Transatlantic Cup in2004 . The Mob had won each of these international team matches until falling 3-1 to the US team ofPhil Ivey ,Andy Bloch ,Chris Ferguson , and Paul Wolfe. The Mob's deal with Prima expired at the end of 2005.Late Night Poker
The Mob first became recognised for their appearances on the original televised poker programme "
Late Night Poker " (1999-2002). Their results in each season are below:Other Ventures
The Mob run a successful website that includes a first-of-its-kind [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/ tournament poker player database] that attempts to house the results of every major worldwide poker event since 2000, indexed by location, date, and player. The origin of the information contained in the database was queried in a court action brought by rival website Pokerpages.com. Information sourced from Pokerpages.com has since been removed from the database.
The Mob were used in series one of the British con-art documentary series '
The Real Hustle '. Presenters Paul Wilson andAlexis Conran , posing as poker novices filming a documentary, beat the Mob using various techniques.The Mob are now sponsored by
Full Tilt Poker . [http://www.thehendonmob.com/full_tilt/]External links
* [http://www.thehendonmob.com/ Official site]
* [http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/players/coren01.htm PokerPages.com article]
* [http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_magazine/archives/?a_id=14128 CardPlayer.com interview]
* [http://www.primapoker.com/hendon_mob.php?bTag=indexphp_wwwprimapokercom&lang=en PrimaPoker.com Intro]
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