Lee Davy catches up with The Hendon Mob President, Eric Danis, during the Malta Poker Festival to talk about The Hendon Mob Championship, a potential reunion with the Mobsters and much more.

I get the impression there are no red lights in the life of Eric Danis. I peek up from my laptop, and see him scurrying across the Hilton lobby like a bystander desperately trying to find a gap in the crowd to watch their child performing somersaults in a parade.

Punctual, dressed in a suit with a The Hendon Mob (THM) patch on his lapel, he looks the business. I get the feeling that he’s a few coins shy in his parking meter so I switch my batteries, lay my Dictaphone on the table, and begin.

We are at the Malta Poker Festival, and on the menu is a €250 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em: The Hendon Mob Championship event. It’s the first time a series has hosted a THM Championship, and it was a fantastic success with 491-entrants creating a €104,779 prize pool, and a not too shabby looking €17,850 to the winner, Oleksii Yerema.