Barny Boatman:
Barny Boatman is the only Mobster without a poker nickname. “With a name like mine," he reasons “who needs one?”
He loves adventure and has always been a traveller, living and working in such disparate places as Barcelona, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. He has had countless jobs from barman to builder, teacher to journalist, and before turning to pro poker he was chief computer programer for a multi national company.
He has worked as a commentator for countless televised poker tournaments including Late Night Poker, The Poker Million, The Poker Nations Cup, The EPT, The World Head’s Up, The EPO, Poker Million the Masters, The Victor Cup and Celebrity Poker Club.
In 2005 he recorded the TV series Barny’s Home Games in which he visited and played in home games around the UK.
He is a highly talented exponent of No Limit Hold-em or ‘The Beautiful Game’ as he calls it. Although the biggest prizes have eluded him, Barny’s career features many wins as well as countless deep runs and final tables in the word’s biggest tournaments, including The Aussie Millions, The Master Classics, The European Open, the Poker Million and many WPT, WSOP and EPT events.
He first made his mark on the international poker scene back in 1999 when he became Europe’s top ranked Seven Card Stud Player, and toped the European Omaha rankings in 2000/2001, winning the European Championship seven card stud event in 2002.
In both 2000 and 2001 he was Britain’s top finisher in the WSOP main event and in 2002 he set a new record by making three WSOP finals in a row, an achievement that earned him an award for the outstanding tournament performance of the year.
Barny will be captaining the UK team at the International Poker Federation’s Nation’s Cup of Duplicate Poker in London in December 2011 and continues to be an innovator and popular ambassador for the game.
Barny Boatman in action: