Poker’s Olympic Dream Teams: Great Britain

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The worlds greatest athletes have all gathered in Paris, France for the Summer Olympics and while poker isnt an Olympic sport – or maybe even a sport at all – WPT.com couldnt help but take the opportunity to imagine what it just might look like if some ofthe worlds best poker players were representing their country in Paris.

In the true Olympic spirit, each countrys organizing committee was tasked with filling a five-person roster consisting of a specialist in each of the following:

The five players would also be accompanied by a coach from their country. Each player would compete ONLY in their respective discipline, earning not only individual glory – medals available for each event – but also team points that lead to gold, silver, and bronze medals for the top-performing country.

With that in mind, weve put together teams from Canada, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Great Britain, and the United States with insight from some of the top journalists in poker. Today, we present to you the 2024 Canadian Olympic Poker team with insight from esteemed poker writer Paul Seaton.

No Limit Hold’em Tournament Chris Moorman

In the history of No Limit Holdem tournaments, you may be hard-pressed to find someone who has played more in their career than Chris Moorman. The former #1-ranked online player in the world and the first person to ever reach more than $10 million in online earnings, Moorman has an insatiable, unwavering grind of NLHE tournaments, making him an MTT legend.

He has just over $9 million in live recorded earnings including a World Poker Tour title in the 2014 Los Angeles Poker Classic for more than $1 million and a World Series of Poker gold bracelet win in the 2017 $3,000 NLHE for just under $500,000. His live resume is littered with massive six- and seven-figure scores, all of which come as an NLHE specialist, and have lifted him to a spot on the UKs Top-10 All-Time Money List.

If there is anyone more consistent, more successful, or more focused than Moorman, we cant see it. If you want more, you go with Moorman. Hes the online tournament crusher and no one has likely played more NLHE tournaments than he has. Plus, hes added in some serious live clout in recent years and has made a mark as a sponsored pro. Hell thrive under the pressure,” Paul Seaton.

Pot Limit Omaha Tournament Stephen Chidwick

As one of the most respected and accomplished poker players in the world, Stephen Chidwick from Deal, England, would be a top choice for any squad no matter the poker variant. The GPI Award Winner for Toughest Opponent is third on pokers All-Time Money list with more than $59 million in earnings, a good chunk of which hes amassed by crushing PLO tournaments. Case in point, he won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet in 2019 in the $25,000 PLO High Roller for $1.618 million, the third-highest score of his career.

He also holds Pot Limit Omaha titles from 2019s PokerGOs U.S. Poker Open and the British Poker Open as well as finishing in third place in the 2023 $100,000 PLO Super High Roller Bowl for $570,000. While Chidwick is perhaps known more for his NLHE talent, hes proven that hes just as good with four cards in his hand as he is with two.

Chidwick won his first WSOP bracelet playing a $25k PLO event when he admits he didnt know the game as fully as he does now. So what kind of threat does that make him now? Who would want to sit across from the man with the most fearsome table image in poker with a gold medal on the line? said Seaton.

No Limit Hold’em Cash Game Sam Trickett

If Sam Trickett were to take up the cash game cause for the UK, it would be a return to the felt after deciding to spend more time with his family in 2021. But prior to that time, Nottinghams Trickett was not just known as the runner-up in the inaugural $1 million buy-in Big One For One Drop (for more than $10 million) but a cash game savant who would routinely battle in the biggest livestreamed games in the world. From the nosebleed games in the PokerGO Studio to the partypoker-sponsored Sam Trickett Invitational High Stakes livestreamed cash games, Tricketts reputation shifted from a tournament crusher to a cash game specialist.

Tricky may have semi-retired to Ibiza over the past few years but dont let that fool you. Hes still the master of maximizing his edge in a single cash game pot and plays with a freedom of expression that Simone Biles aspires to!” Seaton said. “Tricky will make things tricky for any opponent.

Although hes been out of the spotlight for the past few years, he showed up to Rob Yongs Friday Night Poker holiday livestreamed cash game at the end of 2023 to prove that hes still got it.

Mixed Game Tournament Benny Glaser

If theres a better mixed gamer in recent years, I havent met them,” said Seaton. “Glaser is a WSOP god and would strike the fear of God into God himself unless the big man upstairs has been brushing up on his Eight Game. Glaser is perhaps the greatest modern mixed game tournament player.

There doesnt seem to be a single game in poker that Benny Glaser is not elite at. At 35, Southamptons Glaser has amassed nearly $8 million in live tournament earnings, including a runner-up finish at the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas for a career-high $2.8 million score. While that was in No Limit Holdem, Glaser has shown that he equally excels in Mixed Games, where hes captured all five of his World Series of Poker gold bracelet.

Nine of Glasers top ten career scores are in a variant other than NLHE, including final tables in the 2018 and 2021 $50K WSOP Poker Players Championship. He has six-figure scores in Razz, Omaha 8, 2-7 Lowball, PLO, and H.O.R.S.E. He had 11 cashes at the 2024 WSOP, ten of which were in a variant other than NLHE and three final tables. Glaser currently sits 10th on Englands All-Time Money List and should continue to dominate mixed games, not just at the WSOP but wherever they are being offered.

Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em Darius Samual

Sometimes you just want to ride the hot hand and thats exactly what Team UK would be doing in the case of Darius Samual. The story goes that Samual essentially got off the plane in Las Vegas this summer for the 2024 World Series of Poker, put up half his bankroll to enter the $25K Heads-Up Championship, and blasted his way through an elite field to capture the bracelet and a career-high score of $500,000.

Samual proved he has the chops to compete with the best taking out James Chen, 2023 WSOP Player of the Year Ian Matakis, Matthew Wantman, John Smith, Artur Martirosian, and Faraz Jaka en route to the win.

The recent WSOP winner of the $25k HU Championship couldnt be in better form,” Seaton said. “Sure he has less experience than some but he has no fear! Hes a wild card but Id be confident he could do some real damage!

Its true he doesnt have a lot of documented experience, with his first Hendon Mob cash recorded in 2023, but he did cash nine times at the World Series of Poker and clearly has a knack for heads-up action.

Coach for Team Great Britain Barny Boatman

A legend of UK poker and one of the original members of the actual Hendon Mob, Barny Boatman has seen it all and done it all when it comes to the game of poker. The 68-year-old proved that he continues to have what it takes to compete with the best when he bested a field of 1,224 entries in the 2024 EPT Paris Main Event for $1.38 million. But more so, Boatman has plenty of wisdom to share in all the games.

While his biggest scores are in No Limit Holdem, his career is rife with mixed game scores including one of his two World Series of Poker bracelets coming in PLO. One is unlikely to find anyone in the game of poker with as much experience as Boatman, with nearly $5.5 million in live tournament earnings, his first recorded result dates back to 1998 – and he has recorded results every year since (with the exception of 2020 for reasons outside of his control most likely). A true grinder and ambassador for poker, hes earned the respect of the entire poker community.

Theres no one better to lead the way than Barny,” said Seaton. “A PokerStars Team Pro he literally invented the Hendon Mob. Everyone in poker respects Barny Boatman and each and every British player would crawl over broken flush draws for him!”

stats courtesy of The Hendon Mob/GPI

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