Ben Grundy - The Milky Bar Kid

Ben Grundy, aka The Milky Bar Kid, is fast becoming a star on the European poker circuit. Already a well-known and much feared player on the Internet, Grundy began to impose himself on the live scene last year, making the final table of the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, and winning over $100,000 in the process. That win put him in the public eye and he soon had a sponsorship deal with Betfair. Grundy now hopes to take this form to the World Series of Poker, where he planning to play in at least eight events.

Whichpoker’s Malcolm Weir caught up with Ben and asked him about $40,000 swings, and what he’d do if a WSOP final table clashed with an England World Cup final.

The poker honeymoon is over – yea right!

2007 was supposed to be the year poker died. That was the theory at least. The merchants of doom have for some time predicted that this would be the year the poker boom finally folded in on itself, with a dot com-esque collapse a real possibility. And that was before the UIGEA.
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