The Hendon Mob

Hendon Mob You may have heard their name mentioned many times in and around the poker scene over the last decade or so, you may have seen them on TV dressed in black suits and dark glasses similar to Jake and Elwood Blues but they’re not blues musicians and they’re not gangsters so who exactly are the Hendon Mob?

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Two brothers, Ross and Barny Boatman used to play poker in regular home games with other poker enthusiasts at Ross's flat back in the early nineties before moving to a regular poker game at Joe Beevers’ home in nearby Hendon where the brother became good friends of Joe and another of the regular poker players Ram Vaswani. The four would drive together to play poker games and tournaments around Britain and eventually everywhere they went people would say 'here comes the Hendon Mob', a name which has stuck.

They’re not a poker team but more of a poker family. Four poker brothers who fight as fiercely with each other as they do with the rest of the field. They have been competing at poker tournaments around Europe together for over a decade and their reputation as ruthless poker professionals is only superseded by their reputation for integrity and fair play. They have played poker in many high profile live poker events including; World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour and Irish Winter Festival plus televised poker tournaments including Late Night Poker and Poker Million with enough cash finishes to keep them all in expensive suits and shades, and fast cars. Between them, the Hendon Mob have won over $8 million in prizes from playing poker.

So now you know. The Hendon Mob aren’t really mobsters they’re just four players who will go down in poker history for playing poker together as a mob but the only time you’ll get mugged by them is at the poker table as they show you how to play poker.

26/05/2010 13:54:44

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