Ram Vaswani

Ram Vaswani
Ram Vaswani (2005)
Personal information
Year of birth	1970
place of birth	London
Nickname	Crazy Horse
place of residence	Finchley
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0.$ 231,413
Total prize money	$ 3,491,177
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	18th
Best main event	no cash
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	6th
Last updated: February 24, 2020

Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani (* 1970 in London ) is a professional British poker player and former snooker player from England . He is the youngest member of the Hendon Mob and lives in Finchley .

snooker

Vaswani grew up in Finchley , where he was introduced to snooker. He started playing at the age of 13 and skipped school for it. After he turned 18, he played professionally for two years. During this time he scored 3 centuries in one game and a maximum break . Vaswani let his snooker career drag and became more interested in gambling. So it became unlikely that he could make the breakthrough to the top players.

Poker career

Vaswani started playing cards at the age of nine. For a long time he called Seven Card Stud his favorite variant and made his first professional experience at the Victoria Casino in London . Vaswani met Joe Beevers in Luton when he was about to place a dog bet and agreed to meet him to play poker. With Barny and Ross Boatman , they founded a poker game and called themselves Hendon Mob . Vaswani shares the nickname Crazy Horse with the Lakota leader Tashunca-uitco , which he chose himself.

His first major tournament success achieved Vaswani in 1999. He won the 5000 guilders expensive main event of the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam , which was the biggest poker tournament in Europe at that time. Beevers had to lend him the buy-in in advance because Vaswani was broke. Vaswani completed his first tournament at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas in June 2001 in the prize categories. A year later, he finished third in a Limit Hold'em tournament at the 2002 WSOP and second in a mix of Hold'em and Stud . In 2004 , he finished third in a Hold'em tournament. Vaswani won a bracelet at the 2007 WSOP . He secured first place in a shootout tournament in Limit Hold'em with a buy-in of $ 1,500 and won more than $ 217,000. In a total of 18 WSOP cash placements, Vaswani earned more than one million US dollars in prize money.

Vaswani made it to the final table four times in the main event of the European Poker Tour . He won in Dublin in 2004 , came second in Copenhagen in 2005 , fifth in Deauville in 2006 and eighth in the 2007 season finale in Monte-Carlo . These four results earned him prize money of around 440,000 euros .

In total, Vaswani has earned just under 3.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments . Vaswani played on the poker site Full Tilt Poker , from which he, like all the Hendon mob , was sponsored. On April 5, 2007, Ram Vaswani lost more than $ 400,000 to Brian Townsend during a cash game session. His last tournament win to date was in December 2017.

Web links

Commons : Ram Vaswani  - Collection of Images

• Ram Vaswani in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Ram Vaswani in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Ram Vaswani in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ram Vaswani in the World Series of Poker database, accessed February 24, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ram Vaswani in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 24, 2020 (English).