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.
Joe Beevers is the only member of the group who actually comes from Hendon (a district of London) but the others played in Hendon. The Hendon Mob describe John Kabbaj as their unofficial fifth member. Several other European professionals, including Harry Demetriou (Koumari Boy), Padraig Parkinson (Padraig), Neil Channing (Bad Beat) and John Duthie have posted on the group's forum.
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, World Poker Tour and other major tournaments. They have dozens of in the money results between them.
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