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Garry started off as a cash game player in North London, but turned to tournaments in the late 1990's. Since then he has had numerous high finishes in limit, no limit and pot limit hold'em, Omaha and 7-card stud.

2000

In April 2000 he followed a 5th place finish in the Great Britain Poker Championships £500 Pot Limit Hold'em event with a 3rd place finish in the I£600 Irish Open No Limit Hold'em. In August 2000 he won the £100 Pot Limit 7-card stud tournament to take home the £13,455 grand prize, defeating a final table including Willie Tann and Simon "Aces" Trumper. 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December This is a timeline for events in April, 2000. ... 2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December This is a timeline for events in August, 2000. ... Jump to: navigation, search Willie The Dice Man Tann is an English professional poker player. ... Simon Trumper (b. ...

2001

Garry made four final tables at the Great Britain Hold'em Championships in Birmingham in March 2001, including a win in the £500 Pot Limit Hold'em event, defeating a field including "Gentleman" Liam Flood and Lucy "Golden Ovaries" Rokach. Jump to: navigation, search The city from above Centenary Square. ... 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Events: March 3 - A U.S. Air Force Materials Command C-23 Sherpa transport crashes during stormy weather in the U.S. state of Georgia, killing 21. ... Liam Flood, nicknamed The Gentleman is an Irish professional poker player. ... Lucy Rokach is a professional poker player, regarded as one of the top female players in Europe. ...

In August 2001 he finished 2nd in the £500 No Limit Hold'em event at the Grosvenor UK Open, with the final table including Dave Welch, Peter "The Poet" Costa and Tony "The Lizard" Bloom. The next month he won the Limit Hold'em event at the Austrian Classics tournament in Vienna. 2001 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December Deaths: August 25 - Aaliyah Films: August 10 - Osmosis Jones played by Chris Rock, starring Bill Murray August 24 - Bubble Boy Categories: 2001 by month ... Dave Welch is an English poker player, who made several appearances on the Late Night Poker television series. ... Peter The Poet Costa (born January 17, 1956 in Cyprus) is an English professional poker player based in Leicester. ... Tony Bloom (b. ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ...

He finished the year with another three tournament wins: the Limit Hold'em event at the Moscow Open, the Pot Limit Omaha event at the Winter Tournament Olympia and the Limit 7-card Stud tournament in the Helsinki Freezeout. Province Southern Finland Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki City manager Jussi Pajunen Official languages Finnish, Swedish Area  - total  - land ranked 342nd 185. ...

2002

In April 2002 Garry made his one and only appearance on Late Night Poker, finishing 5th in the heat won by Surinder Sunar and also featuring "Mad" Marty Wilson, Dave Welch and Victoria Coren. His heat is often remembered for his raise with a pair of 6's, which made Coren lay down Ace-King and also made Welch lay down a pair of Jacks. Jump to: navigation, search 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for April, 2002. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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. ... Surinder Sunar. ... Mad Marty Wilson is an English professional poker player from Wolverhampton. ... Victoria Coren. ...

In June 2002 he took first prize in the Pot Limit Hold'em event at the Taleon Masters in St Petersburg. 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December A timeline of events in the news for June, 2002. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...

Garry made another 18 final table appearances in the remainder of the year, including another 3 wins.

His success throughout the year led to him winning the European Poker Player of the Year award for 2002.

2003

Although Garry did not win any major tournaments in 2003, he made 13 final tables in 4 different countries. Arguably his greatest achievement in 2003 was a 3rd place finish in the Pot Limit Omaha tournament in the Irish Winter Tournament in Dublin. Jump to: navigation, search Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath), is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, located near the midpoint of Irelands east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin region. ...

2004

In 2004 Garry achieved his greatest successes to date. His second-place finish in the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em tournament at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) earned him $139,540 at the end of a lengthy event that included Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani and Phil Hellmuth Jr. He followed this with a 5th place finish in the Victor Poker Cup, earning a further £15,000 in July 2004. The World Series of Poker is the most prestigious set of poker tournaments in the world. ... Left to right: Ross Boatman, Joe Beevers, Barny Boatman, Ram Vaswani. ... Jump to: navigation, search Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: July 2004 in sports Deaths in July • 31 David B. Haight • 29 Francis Crick • 29 Nafisa Joseph • 23 Joe Cahill • 23 Mehmood • 23 Illinois Jacquet • 23 Carlos Paredes • 22 Sacha Distel • 21 Jerry Goldsmith • 21...

Garry played in the inaugural European Poker Tour tournament in September 2004, making the final table in Barcelona. He rounded off the year winning the 7-card stud tournament at the Korona Russia Poker Championships. Inaugurated in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold em popularity, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour. ... 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December See also: September 2004 in sports Deaths in September • 27 Tsai Wan-lin • 24 Françoise Sagan • 20 Brian Clough • 18 Russ Meyer • 15 Johnny Ramone • 12 Fred Ebb • 11 Peter VII of Alexandria • 8 Richard Girnt... Jump to: navigation, search Barcelona within Barcelonès Population (2003) 1,582,738 Area 100. ...

2005

Garry won the No Limit Hold'em tournament at the Palms Summer Poker Series in June 2005 as a warm-up to the WSOP. At the WSOP itself he made it into the money of the Main Event for the first time, taking $33,197 for his 219th place finish. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in June June 27: Shelby Foote June 27: John T. Walton June 26: Richard Whiteley June 25: John Fiedler June 25: Chet Helms June 24: Paul Winchell June 21: Jaime Cardinal Sin June 20: Jack Kilby...

As of 2005, Garry has earned over $650,000 in live tournament play. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External Link

• Hendon Mob tournament results