Poker Bad Boys Take Vegas

[Dante]

The Hendon Mob are taking no prisoners at the first stop on their Prima Poker World Poker Tour. Team members Ram ‘CrazyHorse’ Vaswani, Joe ‘The Elegance’ Beevers and Barmy Barny Boatman came in 1st, 4th and 5th respectively on Sunday’s $500 Pot Limit Omaha at the Four Queens Poker Classic in Las Vegas.


“It was a short field today but probably the toughest so far. The big boys have arrived. Scotty Nguyen, Mike Sexton and An Tran to name but a few. They were all at Barny’s table but that didn’t hinder my big brother who turned $1,000 into $11,000 in the first hour and a half. He clashed with Scotty in a huge pot. They both had aces and all the chips went in on the flop when Scotty check raised Barny. Barny flopped the nut flush draw and paired one of his other cards. Free-rolling with 14 outs Barny was unlucky to split the pot,” according to Mobster Ross Boatman.


But more important than the money was the affirmation that The Mob are as furiously competitive amongst themselves as they are against ‘civilian’ players. “Ram knocked out Barny and then Joe,” commented Ross. “ Three left Scotty, ‘Walking’ Bob and Ram ‘CrazyHorse’ Vaswani. “We couldn’t expect Ram to do all the work and after delivering Scotty a fatal blow Bob finished him off.


The final two played cat and mouse for what seemed like an age but Bob was no match for the Horse. Ram found aces double suited re-raising Bob before the flop and when they both flopped a flush draw the mouse was caught in the trap.” The final result, a combined $26,480 win for the bad boys of poker and a feather in the cap for their exclusive sponsors, Prima Poker.@@

 

[Jazz]

Interesting, but a COMBINED $27K among 3 players? That's pretty weak. This looks like a press release for Prima. No offense, Dante.

 

[Dante]

LOL it might be jazz....thought it was a real poker tourney...my bad

 

[theswami]

I think it was a real tourney. The problem with these types of groups is that they essentially play from the same bankroll. I'm not big into tourneys but when you have these teams of players it makes for a tourney that reeks of possible collusion and inappropriate activity. It is very difficult to police though. What prevents me and a buddy from each entering a tourney and deciding that we split 50/50 any winnings?

Reminds me of a husband and wife that sat down at my table a few weeks back at the Borgata. Husband locks up his seat about 4 spots away from his wife, goes over to his wife who pulls a couple of cnotes from her purse, takes the cash sits down and buys chips. I'm like ok I've seen enough and play to the blinds and leave. I would rather not play with people who share the same bankroll.

 

[WildBill]

The 4 Queens tournament is always near death and at times doesn't go. No one really likes it because it just doesn't draw in the gamblers like a tournament at Horseshoe or Bellagio does, not to mention the hotel doesn't even have a poker room or affiliated poker room to create buzz and advertising. Small fields are often the rule, I can remember times in the last few years that everyone at the final table didn't even get paid since there were 40-50 entrants.

 

[Jazz]

yeah, swami, I didn't mean to imply it wasn't a real tourney - I meant, the article looked like an overblown press release by Prima Poker for advertising purposes - who really cares about 3 guys winning $27K in a small tourney, unless you're one of them? lol

I didn't see Dante's response until now - sorry about that. Also, there is nothing preventing people from partnering at a table, other than recognition, which it would be tough for casual players to spot. That is one of the reasons I never play poker at the boats in Kansas City - I've watched a lot of poker there a few years back (my buddy liked to play), enough to see not only partnering but to me, an extremely depressing class of 'semi-pros', people who will sit at tables 10 hours a day, 6 days a week and do nothing but grind. To me, they'd taken a game I played for fun (and profit in private games) and turned it into a smoke-filled, dreary limbo of an existence, waiting for the nuts and redemption on the river. I say 'depressing' because these people LOOKED and ACTED depressed, as if they knew what they were doing wasn't any fun at all. And the way they talked to each other (one a husband and wife at different tables) - a complete lingo all their own, most of which I had trouble following. Remember, the most you are allowed to lose at a boat in KC is $500 every 2 hours, so you can understand the tables aren't exactly packed with high-rolling fools, just less well-off ones.

 

[Jazz]

I forgot - what got me going was the completely overblown title that Prima used: 'Poker Bad Boys Take Vegas'.

If $27K is 'taking' Vegas, especially when
we're talking about a TOURNAMENT, then I'm a fvcking candy-striper.