Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast sequence that options informal interviews with a number of the recreation’s finest gamers and personalities. Each episode highlights a well known member of the poker world and dives deep into their favourite tales each on and off the felt.
Barny Boatman spent a lot of his youth touring the world, dwelling in quite a few nations and dealing quite a lot of jobs that included manufacturing unit employee, bartender, journalist, English trainer, laptop programmer, board recreation inventer, and even film reviewer. But it was within the poker world that he discovered his true calling.
The London-born participant graduated from residence video games together with his brother Ross to greater video games with fellow Brits Joe Beevers and Ram Vaswani, forming what would later be often known as ‘The Hendon Mob.’ Now a match database web site, the Hendon mob would beforehand journey the match circuit collectively, and was featured prominently on England’s Late Night Poker tv sequence shortly earlier than the poker increase.
Boatman earned the respect of his friends within the states with three consecutive remaining tables on the World Series of Poker. There have been loads of shut calls, however he lastly nabbed gold in 2013 in a $1,500 no-limit occasion for $546,080. Boatman earned his second bracelet two years later in Germany, taking down a €550 pot-limit Omaha occasion on the WSOP Europe sequence. He’s added one other 5 WSOP remaining tables within the final couple of years, together with a runner-up displaying on the 2023 WSOP Europe €1,650 no-limit six-max occasion.
Most lately, he discovered the winner’s circle on the 2024 EPT Paris sequence, pocketing a profession finest $1.4 million for taking down the €5,300 predominant occasion. As a consequence, the 68-year-old has turn out to be the oldest European Poker Tour champion in historical past, and is now a member of Team PokerStars as a model ambassador.
Highlights from this interview embody what’s in a reputation, the Archway recreation, getting expelled from faculty, channel cyberia and mystic monk, poker TV pioneer, the isle of man match with John Duthie, being a brand, by chance making a database, going broke on his first journey to Vegas, a regretable hand in opposition to Hasan Habib, a three-hour heads-up battle for a bracelet, coping with insomnia, recreation ethics, charcoal portraits, the crooning punk, humor from Victoria Coren-Mitchell, four-day money recreation periods, and being mistaken for a lifeless man.
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