Joe Beevers is the only member of the group that actually comes from Hendon (a district of London) but the other group members played in Hendon, and the name comes from that.
In 2004 and 2005, the Mob was sponsored by Prima Poker to the tune of $2 million worth of worldwide tournament buyin fees. In exchange they played on the online Prima poker-room network. As part of the tour, The Mob challenged four-player teams of various nationalities to heads-up matches, culminating with the UK versus U.S. in the inaugural Prima Transatlantic Cup. In the inaugural event in 2004, The Mob had won each of these international team matches until falling 3-1 to the US team of Phil Ivey, Andy Bloch, Chris Ferguson, and Paul Wolfe. The Mob's deal with Prima expired at the end of 2005.
The Mob first became recognised for their appearances on the original televised poker programme Late Night Poker (1999-2002). Their results in each season are below:
Joe Beevers and the Boatmans have also attended some WPT tournaments. Their attendance has been periodic due to other tournaments that PrimaPoker have asked them to play instead. Although none have yet made a final table, they have made the following money finishes:
The Mob runs a successful website that includes a first-of-its-kind tournament poker player database that attempts to house the results of every major worldwide poker event since 2000, indexed by location, date, and player. The origin of the information contained in the database was queried in a court action brought by rival website Pokerpages.com. Information sourced from Pokerpages.com has since been removed from the database.
The Mob price runners for poker punters on the bookieless online gambling site Betfair.
