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Charalambos "Bambos" Xanthos is a Greek Cypriot hotel and restaurant owner based in London, England. Following on from being a backgammon player, he became a semi-professional poker player in 1993. Image File history File links Charalambosxanthos. ...
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The European Poker Tour (EPT) began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold em popularity. ...
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The 4-star Manor House Hotel at Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England. ...
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Backgammon is a board game for two players in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice and the winner is the first to remove all his pieces from the board. ...
Poker Room at the Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey Poker is a card game, the most popular of a class of games called vying games, in which players with fully or partially concealed cards make wagers into a central pot, which is awarded to the player or players...
1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Xanthos learnt poker from his father in 1960. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
He made numerous appearances on the Late Night Poker television series, and made the Grand Final in Season 2 (beating Victoria Coren's pocket Aces along the way) and the Semi-Final in Season 5. Late Night Poker is a British television show in which Poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold em tournament games for a prize of approximately £50,000. ...
Victoria (Vicky) Coren (born 1972), is an author, journalist and poker player. ...
His biggest tournament cash was 2nd place behind Dave Colclough in the $1,500 no limit hold'em main event at the 2000 European Poker Classic, where he won £40,635. Dave El Blondie Colclough (born 4 March 1964 in Carmarthen, South Wales) is a Welsh computer programmer turned professional poker player. ...
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Texas hold em (or simply hold em or holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games. ...
Xanthos has made more final tables at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino than any other player. [1]
He does not tend to play in tournaments outside of Europe, however his total live tournament winnings exceed $750,000. European redirects here. ...
Trivia
- When turning up to play in Late Night Poker series 2, he found out from the resident bookmaker that he was priced at 10:1 to win the heat. He immediately went home to get his chequebook and cashed in on his bet by defeating Jan "The Walrus" Lundberg to win the heat.
External links - Hendon Mob tournament results
- Gutshot tournament results
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