I've been playing cards since I was 3 years old. Family games of Newmarket, shoot pontoon, whist and the like. The move onto poker was natural I suppose, home games with Neil "Bad Beat" Channing, Tim "The Prof" Amos and various other degenerates began at the age of 13 and only stopped when we were old enough to make our first tentative ventures to the neon lights and shady venues of casino gambling. The early ventures into tournament poker at such diverse venues of Reading, Luton, Southsea and Southampton were not particularly lucrative, but the lesson I learnt were much more valuable than the financial cost I incurred.

Plying their trade in these games were such players as Tony Chapman, Bob Coombes, Simon Trumper, Mike Magee, Nouradine Nouri and Steve Vladar. Just sitting at a ringside seat watching these guys at work was more luminating than a ten year subscription to Cardrunners could ever be. I slowly tried to incorporate little bits and pieces from these guys' games into my own and even found a few little angles of my own. And success began to follow. The better I became at tournament poker, the higher stakes I played for. I won a few medium sized tournaments and was placed in still more. The highlights? I won the UK Championship in 2002, made the final table of the Masterclassics of Poker three times, chopped 2 tournaments in 3 days at a luton festival in 2005 and perhaps my own personal highlight was winning a festival event at the home of European poker: the Vic, in 2003. Last year I came 75th in the wsop main event, by far my deepest run in the biggest poker tournament in the world. My complete tournament poker record is here: The Hendon Mob Database