Hendon Mob Poker
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When Brothers Ross and Barney Boatman’s regular home poker game ended in Archway, North London, they had to look for somewhere else to play.
They went to play in a game with Joe Beevers and Ram Vaswani in Hendon, London and the rest is history as the Hendon Mob was born.
The Hendon Mob played together in those days, but they would soon be fierce competitors. They would travel all over the country competing in tournaments and eventually, they would travel and play all over Europe. They would never give up their friendship and support of each other, though, and the group grew stronger and stronger.
The Hendon Mob take their name from the area they are from in North LondonFrom Obscurity to Celebrity
In 1999, they played in the first televised poker tournament, called Late Night Poker. This was a pivotal TV show as it was the first ever poker show to use under the table cameras to show the hole cards of players during the hand, rather than waiting until the end of the hand at the showdown.
It was a format that was adopted by all TV coverage since then and revolutionised the popularity of the sport as it made it much more interesting to watch poker. It is credited as the first stage of the poker boom by increasing recreational interest in the sport before the boom really took off after Chris Moneymaker (an amateur) won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2003.
Late Night Poker had a long run on TV in Great Britain and the Hendon Mob was a popular part of it. Their popularity grew, and they were asked to do appearances on television and radio, as well as interviews for the print media.
A very young looking Phil Helmuth taking part in the legendary Late Night Poker TV show which was the pioneer of showing viewers Hole Cards during the hand
Their website thehendonmob.com was established in 2001, when fans expressed interest. The site has grown into the largest poker fan site in all of Europe.
Run by the Mob, It is the biggest live poker database and contains statistics on just about any player who has placed in the cash in any major tournament, worldwide. There are also details of every major tournament and poker tips from the Hendon Mob themselves and other famous poker players who are friends of the mob. There is information on over 250,000 players & their live poker results and nearly 70,000 events which is pretty impressive.
Joe Beevers (on the left) is the one who is behind the creation of the Hendon Mob brand and their business interests
The site has recently been acquired by Global Poker Index which is one of the largest online poker rankings site which tracks player performance and runs a player of the year ranking for all players worldwide. We wait to see how they are going to integrate the Hendon Mob’s database into their current ranking system, but it should produce the most complete tracking and ranking system we have seen to date for poker players. So lets meet the mob and find out a little more about each of them.Ross Boatman
Ross Boatman, or “Rocky,” is known across Great Britain as a popular actor. He has been on several top-rated television shows such as London’s Burning and some movies. This does not stop him from enjoying a successful career as a poker player as well.
As is the case with the Hendon Mob, Ross Boatman does not confine himself to Texas Hold ‘Em. He has been an Irish Omaha champion, and has won the 2004 British High-Low Omaha championship. He has also made money finishes in the World Poker Tour.
Phil ‘The Tower’ Heald interviews Ross Boatman talking about Poker and his acting careerBarney Boatman
Ross’s brother, Barney Boatman, has had many careers. He has dabbled in building, journalism, teaching, and computer programming. It was only when he discovered poker that he settled into one job—that of a professional poker player.
Barney became well known when he reached the status of Europe’s highest ranking Seven Card Stud player in 1999. He has also been involved in Omaha poker. However, he is most fond of Hold ‘Em poker and has figured prominently in many poker tournaments including winning a World Series of Poker Bracelet in 2013 in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem Tournament.
Barny Boatman wins his WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem Event in 2013Ram ‘Crazy Horse’ Vaswani
Ram “Crazy Horse” Vaswani started out playing snooker. The more exacting version of billiards, it kept his attention well. However, he soon became even more interested in poker.
He not only won the European Poker Tour Irish Masters in 2004, but in the same year, he made the final table in three WSOP events. He remains the only person to date to reach 4 European Poker Tour (EPT) final tables winning one of them, the Dublin EPT in 2004. He has also won a coveted World Series of Poker Bracelet by winning the 2007 $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout event.
Ram Vaswani won his WSOP bracelet at the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout event in 2007Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers, “The Elegance,” went to University to study finance. What he came away with was a proficient knowledge of the game of poker. He has played and made a name for himself in many tournaments around the world.
By 2005, he had finished 7th in a WPT championship, and also done well in a WSOP championship. He has made many finals and done very well for himself. Known as the brains behind the Hendon Mob brand and website he is one credited with making the mob as popular as it is today.
Another interview by ‘The Tower’ this time with Mob leader Joe BeeversTeam Full Tilt call in The Mob
The Hendon Mob is a close-knit group of players. They have teamed up, but usually they compete with each other. While they are playing against each other, it is every man for himself. Yet, in the end, they reunite as a team and give each other strength and courage.
The Hendon Mob along with their massive fan following became part of the Full Tilt Poker Team a few years ago and ran their leagues on the site often playing in their own Hendon Mob online tournaments along with their fans.
If you see these avatars on Full Tilt Poker then you are playing with The Hendon Mob!
The Mob are no longer sponsored by Full Tilt but are often still seen playing on the site and chatting with their fans.Paul SeatonTable Of Contents
Twenty years ago, four men appeared in the British newspaper The Evening Standard in which they were described as poker’s next big thing. The author of the piece was later to be two-time EPT winner Vicky Coren.
Hailing from North London, The Hendon Mob was a poker Rat Pack to be feared and admired in equal measure. They had nicknames, they had swagger and they had a knack for winning.
Two decades later, the three words ’The Hendon Mob’ are synonymous with poker. From the poker database that would be their legacy to the WSOP bracelets and new endeavors that form their checkered history, the time is right to take a deep dive into The Hendon Mob — then and now.
We spoke to all four members of the group to piece together the past and find out what the future holds for founding members Joe Beevers, Barny Boatman, Ross Boatman and Ram Vaswani. The Hendon Mob Beginnings
We start, naturally, at the beginning. It’s the mid-1990’s. Britpop is in the air and the boys are about to get the band together.
“Someone gave me a tip for a dog,” says Vaswani, the former professional snooker player who went from hanging out in snooker halls as a teenager to picking up a deck of cards. He loved to gamble too, and the story of the first Hendon Mob meeting would arise from this particular gambling tale. This particular day, that would bring about the first Hendon Mob meeting.
Ross Boatman: ’When I left that program, nothing touched it as far as TV success was concerned, but my interest in poker was very strong and, bit by bit, it gave me something else.’
“I was friends with a guy called Jeff who told me that we needed to back a dog,” says Beevers, the other man in the start of the story. “He stops outside the betting shop. He says ‘Here’s £200. Go and stand in that red telephone box by the betting shop and wait for it to ring.’ I stood in the phone box and after four or five minutes it rang. I picked up the phone and the voice said ‘2.30 at Romford, back Trap 6.’
Armed with this information, Beevers backed the dog to win and even had a cheeky £30 on it himself. The dog in question had started at odds of 7/4 and went off at 4/6 as the odds-on favorite. It lost.
“Five or six weeks later, I was playing in a private poker game in Mill Hill and the doorbell went,’ Beevers recalled. Online poker betting. ’I couldn’t see because we were playing but I could hear a voice. It was ‘Romford 2.30, back trap six. And as he walked into the room. He was Ram Vaswani. I said, ‘You’re the guy in the phone box’ and he laughed.”Private Games Bring the Mob Together
“That was the first time I spoke to [Beevers],’ Vaswani said. ’I came to a game that he was running with another friend of ours. I started playing in his private game and that led to us having the game in Hendon.”
Barny Boatman: ’It was my fault — I got him into poker. I was always into games.’
Vaswani and Beevers became friends, and when Beevers started his own game, Vaswani helped out. The two men already played private games two or three times a week. Vaswani had started out playing five card stud in the snooker halls, but it was dealer’s choice at Beevers’ flat. If you could name it and deal it, you could play it, and for money.
“We played a lot of people in Luton five or six days a week, and it was before the 2005 Gaming Act,” explains Beevers. “There was no online poker and casinos closed at 4 p.m. - they’d announce ’last three hands.’ Throughout London, different people had private games.”
Eventually, the Boatmans found their way to Beevers’ game. “Ross became a regular,’ said Beevers. ’After a while, Ross brought Barny along.’
Ross Boatman was the most well-known name of the four men at the time, but not for his prowess at the poker table. He was an actor in the hit TV show London’s Burning, which centered around a capital city fire brigade. You can watch some of the show on YouTube.
“London’s Burning was a massive show for me when I was younger, largely because there was only four TV channels,’ said Beevers. ’It was on at 9 p.m. on a Sunday night and it peaked at 20 million viewers. It was massive.”
Eventually, Ross left the show and took to poker.
“When I left that program, nothing touched it as far as TV success was concerned, but my interest in poker was very strong and, bit by bit, it gave me something else,’ Ross Boatman recalled. ’I’m not sure exactly what, but the excitement, independence and not having to be reliant on someone to get jobs for me was great.” The Final Link
Liberated from his acting frustrations, Boatman brought his older brother along. Barny Boatman was forty and had been around the block. He’d been a journalist and had also been involved in a project in the mid-90s called Channel Cyberia — a website involving games and gambling. It had poker stories in it and a ‘Fantasy Punters League’ where real odds were used to work out the best gambler over time.
Joe Beevers: ’At the time, there were 23 London casinos, and between us, we got barred from 19 of them for playing blackjack.’
Barny was always close to his younger brother. He had another brother who was closer to him in age, but they had a classic sibling rivalry. There was always an element of protection in Barny’s love of Ross.
“Ross and I were playing in a poker game in Archway, where we both lived at the time. It was a combination of some of Ross’s acting mates from London’s Burning and a few friends of mine. It was very recreational, but it was starting to get big in terms of money going back and forth. Ross and I got more serious about the game.”
He continued: ’Ross was my kid brother, I was always very proud of him and we always had a lot in common,” says Barny, before a pause, and an admission. “It was my fault — I got him into poker. I was always into games. Me and my mates used to play poker round the kitchen table and Ross wanted to join in. I taught him to play and he loved it. Later on, we were both playing with separate friends and our games merged.”
Barny Boatman was a journalist and Ross Boatman was an actor. It didn’t take them long to find the game in Hendon and become firm friends with Beevers and Vaswani. At times, the games would run from 7 p.m. on a Monday night until 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The games got big. The four men got to know each other. CachedThe Hendon Game
The roots of the poker game in Hendon grew out of gambling origins that ran deep in Beevers. “My dad took me to the Golden Nugget on Shaftsbury Avenue to introduce me to blackjack. At the time, there were 23 London casinos, and between us, we got barred from 19 of them for playing blackjack.”
Ram Vaswani: ’I’d gone to Vegas with Joe to play a festival at the Four Queens. But it would be a few years before the four of us went to Vegas together.’
It was while playing blackjack that Beevers started playing poker, and that experience developed into a lifelong love of the game. It wasn’t long before he set up his private game: The Hendon game.
“The four of us were hardcore in that game, obviously playing against each other,’ Beevers said. ’I had a dedicated poker room in my flat, and I had a snooker light, the large drop-down one over the baize. Everyone smoked, the room was thick with tar.”
Barny Boatman was a fan of the scene at the Hendon game. “Their game was much more of a classic mixture of people who did nothing else as far as you could tell,” says Barny. “We were playing in casinos, but we were drawn to Joe and Ram’s game.”
The crew of four ran together in the England poker scene and at the Grosvenor Victoria, they earned themselves a nickname that stuck.
Joe Beevers: “We’d walk into ’The Vic’ and John Kabbaj would stick his head up from the Omaha game and say ‘Oh, here come the Hendon Mob.’ That was how we got the name.”
“We’d walk into ’The Vic’ and John Kabbaj would stick his head up from the Omaha game and say ‘Oh, here come the Hendon Mob.’ That was how we got the name,” Beevers explained. They would later use that very name for the website they’d create, and it was also around the time they began traveling together to play the card game that bound them.
“I’d gone to Vegas with Joe to play a festival at the Four Queens,” says Vaswani. “But it would be a few years before the four of us went to Vegas together.”
“It was nice, though, because we had a camaraderie,” says Ross. “We could always rely on each other, learn about the game together. It was nice to have a crew.” Hendon Dreams Start to BrewHendon Mob Poker Players
The crew was enjoying some local notoriety but they were clearly ready for bigger things, or at least the idea of them. The four spoke about ideas for promoting the game of poker and trying to get sponsorship.
“We tried to find a way of getting filmmakers or journalists to pay for us to go to Las Vegas,” says Barny. “I was hawking around a TV idea about filming a group of British players going to play in the World Series of Poker. But nothing was ever going to come of it. We were just dreamers.”
But the dream was about to come true, and in more ways than one. The Hendon Mob was formed, and it was only the beginning of an adventure that would take them around the world. Read more in our upcoming Part 2.
*TagsJoe BeeversBarny BoatmanRoss BoatmanRam VaswaniHendon Mob
*Related PlayersRam VaswaniBarny BoatmanJoe BeeversRoss Boatman
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When Brothers Ross and Barney Boatman’s regular home poker game ended in Archway, North London, they had to look for somewhere else to play.
They went to play in a game with Joe Beevers and Ram Vaswani in Hendon, London and the rest is history as the Hendon Mob was born.
The Hendon Mob played together in those days, but they would soon be fierce competitors. They would travel all over the country competing in tournaments and eventually, they would travel and play all over Europe. They would never give up their friendship and support of each other, though, and the group grew stronger and stronger.
The Hendon Mob take their name from the area they are from in North LondonFrom Obscurity to Celebrity
In 1999, they played in the first televised poker tournament, called Late Night Poker. This was a pivotal TV show as it was the first ever poker show to use under the table cameras to show the hole cards of players during the hand, rather than waiting until the end of the hand at the showdown.
It was a format that was adopted by all TV coverage since then and revolutionised the popularity of the sport as it made it much more interesting to watch poker. It is credited as the first stage of the poker boom by increasing recreational interest in the sport before the boom really took off after Chris Moneymaker (an amateur) won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2003.
Late Night Poker had a long run on TV in Great Britain and the Hendon Mob was a popular part of it. Their popularity grew, and they were asked to do appearances on television and radio, as well as interviews for the print media.
A very young looking Phil Helmuth taking part in the legendary Late Night Poker TV show which was the pioneer of showing viewers Hole Cards during the hand
Their website thehendonmob.com was established in 2001, when fans expressed interest. The site has grown into the largest poker fan site in all of Europe.
Run by the Mob, It is the biggest live poker database and contains statistics on just about any player who has placed in the cash in any major tournament, worldwide. There are also details of every major tournament and poker tips from the Hendon Mob themselves and other famous poker players who are friends of the mob. There is information on over 250,000 players & their live poker results and nearly 70,000 events which is pretty impressive.
Joe Beevers (on the left) is the one who is behind the creation of the Hendon Mob brand and their business interests
The site has recently been acquired by Global Poker Index which is one of the largest online poker rankings site which tracks player performance and runs a player of the year ranking for all players worldwide. We wait to see how they are going to integrate the Hendon Mob’s database into their current ranking system, but it should produce the most complete tracking and ranking system we have seen to date for poker players. So lets meet the mob and find out a little more about each of them.Ross Boatman
Ross Boatman, or “Rocky,” is known across Great Britain as a popular actor. He has been on several top-rated television shows such as London’s Burning and some movies. This does not stop him from enjoying a successful career as a poker player as well.
As is the case with the Hendon Mob, Ross Boatman does not confine himself to Texas Hold ‘Em. He has been an Irish Omaha champion, and has won the 2004 British High-Low Omaha championship. He has also made money finishes in the World Poker Tour.
Phil ‘The Tower’ Heald interviews Ross Boatman talking about Poker and his acting careerBarney Boatman
Ross’s brother, Barney Boatman, has had many careers. He has dabbled in building, journalism, teaching, and computer programming. It was only when he discovered poker that he settled into one job—that of a professional poker player.
Barney became well known when he reached the status of Europe’s highest ranking Seven Card Stud player in 1999. He has also been involved in Omaha poker. However, he is most fond of Hold ‘Em poker and has figured prominently in many poker tournaments including winning a World Series of Poker Bracelet in 2013 in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem Tournament.
Barny Boatman wins his WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem Event in 2013Ram ‘Crazy Horse’ Vaswani
Ram “Crazy Horse” Vaswani started out playing snooker. The more exacting version of billiards, it kept his attention well. However, he soon became even more interested in poker.
He not only won the European Poker Tour Irish Masters in 2004, but in the same year, he made the final table in three WSOP events. He remains the only person to date to reach 4 European Poker Tour (EPT) final tables winning one of them, the Dublin EPT in 2004. He has also won a coveted World Series of Poker Bracelet by winning the 2007 $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout event.
Ram Vaswani won his WSOP bracelet at the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout event in 2007Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers, “The Elegance,” went to University to study finance. What he came away with was a proficient knowledge of the game of poker. He has played and made a name for himself in many tournaments around the world.
By 2005, he had finished 7th in a WPT championship, and also done well in a WSOP championship. He has made many finals and done very well for himself. Known as the brains behind the Hendon Mob brand and website he is one credited with making the mob as popular as it is today.
Another interview by ‘The Tower’ this time with Mob leader Joe BeeversTeam Full Tilt call in The Mob
The Hendon Mob is a close-knit group of players. They have teamed up, but usually they compete with each other. While they are playing against each other, it is every man for himself. Yet, in the end, they reunite as a team and give each other strength and courage.
The Hendon Mob along with their massive fan following became part of the Full Tilt Poker Team a few years ago and ran their leagues on the site often playing in their own Hendon Mob online tournaments along with their fans.
If you see these avatars on Full Tilt Poker then you are playing with The Hendon Mob!
The Mob are no longer sponsored by Full Tilt but are often still seen playing on the site and chatting with their fans.Paul SeatonTable Of Contents
Twenty years ago, four men appeared in the British newspaper The Evening Standard in which they were described as poker’s next big thing. The author of the piece was later to be two-time EPT winner Vicky Coren.
Hailing from North London, The Hendon Mob was a poker Rat Pack to be feared and admired in equal measure. They had nicknames, they had swagger and they had a knack for winning.
Two decades later, the three words ’The Hendon Mob’ are synonymous with poker. From the poker database that would be their legacy to the WSOP bracelets and new endeavors that form their checkered history, the time is right to take a deep dive into The Hendon Mob — then and now.
We spoke to all four members of the group to piece together the past and find out what the future holds for founding members Joe Beevers, Barny Boatman, Ross Boatman and Ram Vaswani. The Hendon Mob Beginnings
We start, naturally, at the beginning. It’s the mid-1990’s. Britpop is in the air and the boys are about to get the band together.
“Someone gave me a tip for a dog,” says Vaswani, the former professional snooker player who went from hanging out in snooker halls as a teenager to picking up a deck of cards. He loved to gamble too, and the story of the first Hendon Mob meeting would arise from this particular gambling tale. This particular day, that would bring about the first Hendon Mob meeting.
Ross Boatman: ’When I left that program, nothing touched it as far as TV success was concerned, but my interest in poker was very strong and, bit by bit, it gave me something else.’
“I was friends with a guy called Jeff who told me that we needed to back a dog,” says Beevers, the other man in the start of the story. “He stops outside the betting shop. He says ‘Here’s £200. Go and stand in that red telephone box by the betting shop and wait for it to ring.’ I stood in the phone box and after four or five minutes it rang. I picked up the phone and the voice said ‘2.30 at Romford, back Trap 6.’
Armed with this information, Beevers backed the dog to win and even had a cheeky £30 on it himself. The dog in question had started at odds of 7/4 and went off at 4/6 as the odds-on favorite. It lost.
“Five or six weeks later, I was playing in a private poker game in Mill Hill and the doorbell went,’ Beevers recalled. Online poker betting. ’I couldn’t see because we were playing but I could hear a voice. It was ‘Romford 2.30, back trap six. And as he walked into the room. He was Ram Vaswani. I said, ‘You’re the guy in the phone box’ and he laughed.”Private Games Bring the Mob Together
“That was the first time I spoke to [Beevers],’ Vaswani said. ’I came to a game that he was running with another friend of ours. I started playing in his private game and that led to us having the game in Hendon.”
Barny Boatman: ’It was my fault — I got him into poker. I was always into games.’
Vaswani and Beevers became friends, and when Beevers started his own game, Vaswani helped out. The two men already played private games two or three times a week. Vaswani had started out playing five card stud in the snooker halls, but it was dealer’s choice at Beevers’ flat. If you could name it and deal it, you could play it, and for money.
“We played a lot of people in Luton five or six days a week, and it was before the 2005 Gaming Act,” explains Beevers. “There was no online poker and casinos closed at 4 p.m. - they’d announce ’last three hands.’ Throughout London, different people had private games.”
Eventually, the Boatmans found their way to Beevers’ game. “Ross became a regular,’ said Beevers. ’After a while, Ross brought Barny along.’
Ross Boatman was the most well-known name of the four men at the time, but not for his prowess at the poker table. He was an actor in the hit TV show London’s Burning, which centered around a capital city fire brigade. You can watch some of the show on YouTube.
“London’s Burning was a massive show for me when I was younger, largely because there was only four TV channels,’ said Beevers. ’It was on at 9 p.m. on a Sunday night and it peaked at 20 million viewers. It was massive.”
Eventually, Ross left the show and took to poker.
“When I left that program, nothing touched it as far as TV success was concerned, but my interest in poker was very strong and, bit by bit, it gave me something else,’ Ross Boatman recalled. ’I’m not sure exactly what, but the excitement, independence and not having to be reliant on someone to get jobs for me was great.” The Final Link
Liberated from his acting frustrations, Boatman brought his older brother along. Barny Boatman was forty and had been around the block. He’d been a journalist and had also been involved in a project in the mid-90s called Channel Cyberia — a website involving games and gambling. It had poker stories in it and a ‘Fantasy Punters League’ where real odds were used to work out the best gambler over time.
Joe Beevers: ’At the time, there were 23 London casinos, and between us, we got barred from 19 of them for playing blackjack.’
Barny was always close to his younger brother. He had another brother who was closer to him in age, but they had a classic sibling rivalry. There was always an element of protection in Barny’s love of Ross.
“Ross and I were playing in a poker game in Archway, where we both lived at the time. It was a combination of some of Ross’s acting mates from London’s Burning and a few friends of mine. It was very recreational, but it was starting to get big in terms of money going back and forth. Ross and I got more serious about the game.”
He continued: ’Ross was my kid brother, I was always very proud of him and we always had a lot in common,” says Barny, before a pause, and an admission. “It was my fault — I got him into poker. I was always into games. Me and my mates used to play poker round the kitchen table and Ross wanted to join in. I taught him to play and he loved it. Later on, we were both playing with separate friends and our games merged.”
Barny Boatman was a journalist and Ross Boatman was an actor. It didn’t take them long to find the game in Hendon and become firm friends with Beevers and Vaswani. At times, the games would run from 7 p.m. on a Monday night until 5 a.m. on Wednesday morning. The games got big. The four men got to know each other. CachedThe Hendon Game
The roots of the poker game in Hendon grew out of gambling origins that ran deep in Beevers. “My dad took me to the Golden Nugget on Shaftsbury Avenue to introduce me to blackjack. At the time, there were 23 London casinos, and between us, we got barred from 19 of them for playing blackjack.”
Ram Vaswani: ’I’d gone to Vegas with Joe to play a festival at the Four Queens. But it would be a few years before the four of us went to Vegas together.’
It was while playing blackjack that Beevers started playing poker, and that experience developed into a lifelong love of the game. It wasn’t long before he set up his private game: The Hendon game.
“The four of us were hardcore in that game, obviously playing against each other,’ Beevers said. ’I had a dedicated poker room in my flat, and I had a snooker light, the large drop-down one over the baize. Everyone smoked, the room was thick with tar.”
Barny Boatman was a fan of the scene at the Hendon game. “Their game was much more of a classic mixture of people who did nothing else as far as you could tell,” says Barny. “We were playing in casinos, but we were drawn to Joe and Ram’s game.”
The crew of four ran together in the England poker scene and at the Grosvenor Victoria, they earned themselves a nickname that stuck.
Joe Beevers: “We’d walk into ’The Vic’ and John Kabbaj would stick his head up from the Omaha game and say ‘Oh, here come the Hendon Mob.’ That was how we got the name.”
“We’d walk into ’The Vic’ and John Kabbaj would stick his head up from the Omaha game and say ‘Oh, here come the Hendon Mob.’ That was how we got the name,” Beevers explained. They would later use that very name for the website they’d create, and it was also around the time they began traveling together to play the card game that bound them.
“I’d gone to Vegas with Joe to play a festival at the Four Queens,” says Vaswani. “But it would be a few years before the four of us went to Vegas together.”
“It was nice, though, because we had a camaraderie,” says Ross. “We could always rely on each other, learn about the game together. It was nice to have a crew.” Hendon Dreams Start to BrewHendon Mob Poker Players
The crew was enjoying some local notoriety but they were clearly ready for bigger things, or at least the idea of them. The four spoke about ideas for promoting the game of poker and trying to get sponsorship.
“We tried to find a way of getting filmmakers or journalists to pay for us to go to Las Vegas,” says Barny. “I was hawking around a TV idea about filming a group of British players going to play in the World Series of Poker. But nothing was ever going to come of it. We were just dreamers.”
But the dream was about to come true, and in more ways than one. The Hendon Mob was formed, and it was only the beginning of an adventure that would take them around the world. Read more in our upcoming Part 2.
*TagsJoe BeeversBarny BoatmanRoss BoatmanRam VaswaniHendon Mob
*Related PlayersRam VaswaniBarny BoatmanJoe BeeversRoss Boatman
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