The four of us started traveling a lot together and to start with I did have a few more results.”īarny Boatman concedes that during those early days, Vaswani had the edge when it came to results. Joe and I were playing private games every day. “I used to play a lot more than Ross and Barny at the start. “We were all very competitive,” says Vaswani, who enjoyed the best early results of the four.
A Traveling Poker GroupĪfter becoming a foursome known as The Hendon Mob in the Grosvenor Victoria casino, blackjack-turned-poker player Joe Beevers, TV actor Ross Boatman, journalist Barny Boatman, and former snooker player Ram Vaswani hit the road. This is the story of The Hendon Mob’s early years. The four of them were together as business partners, but at the table, they played harder than ever against each other.Ī revolutionary new poker television show was about to put their collective and individual names up in lights, camera, and action. When we last spoke to notorious poker group The Hendon Mob in Part 1, we heard about their formation in North London in the mid-1990s.
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