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The Hendon Mob are a group of four professional poker players from London, England: * Joe Beevers * Barny Boatman * Ross Boatman * Ram Vaswani The name of the group was first publicised by the ''Evening Standard'' newspaper in September 2000.〔(Evening Standard image )〕 Joe Beevers is the only member of the group who actually comes from Hendon (a district of northwest London) but the others played in Hendon. The Mob first became recognised for their appearances on the original televised poker programme ''Late Night Poker'' (1999–2002). The Hendon Mob also regularly attends the annual World Series of Poker and other major tournaments. They have dozens of in the money results between them. The Mob were used in series one of the British con-art documentary series 'The Real Hustle'. Presenters Paul Wilson and Alexis Conran, posing as poker novices filming a documentary, beat the Mob by smuggling in decks stacked to their advantage.〔(Pokernews.com: Interview with BBC Real Hustle Star Alexis Conran )〕 ==Sponsorship== In 2004 and 2005, the Mob was sponsored by Prima Poker to the tune of $2 million worth of worldwide tournament buy-in fees.〔(Pokernews.com: Prima Poker sponsors Hendon Mob on world tour )〕 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 to heads-up matches, culminating with the UK versus the U.S. in the inaugural Prima Transatlantic Cup in 2004. The Mob had won each of these international team matches until falling 3-1 to the US team of Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, and Paul Wolfe. The Mob's deal with Prima expired at the end of 2005.〔(Pokernews.com: Prima Poker and Hendon Mob End Affiliation )〕 The Mob were then sponsored by Full Tilt Poker up to September 2011 when the online poker site was accused of fraud.〔(Hendon Mob Ends Exclusive Relationship with Full Tilt Poker )〕 The deal was reinstated when Full Tilt Poker reached an agreement with the U.S Department Of Justice 〔(Poker Site Settles for $731 Million )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hendon Mob」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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