We continue our dig into the habits and routines of professional poker players with a look into the faculty and foibles of the Grosvenor Casinos sponsored pro, Jeff Kimber. 

I first played with Jeff Kimber during a Grosvenor United Kingdom Poker Tour (GUKPT) side-event in Cardiff Bay. He was seated to my direct left. The game was Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO). I couldn’t hold four cards in my hand without showing the whole table. I was so nervous my face started to swell like I had Diphtheria.  He knocked me out. The Bastard.

I have never spoken to him, verbally, but he reacts to Facebook Messenger quicker than Keith Floyd used to respond to a glass of French Champagne thrust under his nose while he waited for his souffle to rise, and for that, I will forever be in his debt.

Hendon Mob shows that Kimber has won $1.7m in live tournaments, with most of his regular beans coming on the GUKPT. In 2006, he finished ninth in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Stars event for $100,000. A year later, he won the €2,500 buy-in World Heads-Up Championship in Barcelona for €125,000, and in 2009, he finished runner-up to JC Tran in a $2,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) for $145,656.