Richard Ashby
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Richard 'Chufty' Ashby is a professional poker
player from London
. He was given the name 'Chufty' by his friends at University, due to Richard's frequency of using the term "chuffed".
Richard picked up poker at his local tennis club, as well as playing for pennies with his father. In the mid nineties, he played his first tournament, a £10 Stud
tournament. A few years later he earned entry into the Aussie Millions. After he bust from the first tournament, he put his entire $4,000 bankroll on the line in a cash game and spun it up to $100,000. By the end of the week he had lost it all.
Richard's first recorded win came at 2001 Grosvenor UK Open in Luton when he won £10,500 in the £100 Pot Limit Seven Card Stud Event. Since then, he's accrued over half a million dollars in live tournament winnings including final table finishes at the 2007 Manchester
GUKPT and the 2009 Aussie Millions, the latter of which earned him A$ 150,000 for his seventh place finish.
However, Richard openly admits that he needs to work on his live game, and is much better known as an online player, in particular on Black Belt Poker where was recently acquired as one of their sponsored pros in September 2010. Richard can often been seeing playing on the site in some of the highest stakes available, and against many of the biggest names in poker.
Richard's favoured game is Omaha, and he is good friends with fellow Omaha specialist Ben Grundy. For a while, they played in the same games, but eventually realised that it was a pointless exercise and decided to avoid each other from there on in. As well as Grundy, Richard considers France's David Benyamine
to be the best Omaha player in Europe, although he cites Phil Ivey
as the only player he would consider sitting out against.
In July 2009, Richard emerged as online poker's biggest cash winner when he earned a total of $1,824,074 over the four week period. This success garnered him much interest, in particular on the Two Plus Two forums where the nosebleed stakes are avidly followed.
On June 13, 2010 Richard won the World Series of Poker Event #21, a $1,500 seven card stud event, winning $140,467 in the process. He followed that success less than two weeks later by finishing 2nd in World Series of Poker Event #43, the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, netting him $378,027 in winnings.
On September 24, 2010 Richard won Event #54 of the World Championship Of Online Poker
, the $2,100 Pot Limit Omaha 6-max event. He was successful out of a field of 480 players, collecting his first WCOOP bracelet along with $185,760 in winnings.
Poker
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player from London
London
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. He was given the name 'Chufty' by his friends at University, due to Richard's frequency of using the term "chuffed".
Richard picked up poker at his local tennis club, as well as playing for pennies with his father. In the mid nineties, he played his first tournament, a £10 Stud
Stud poker
Stud poker is any of a number of poker variants in which each player receives a mix of face-down and face-up cards dealt in multiple betting rounds. Stud games are also typically non-positional games, meaning that the player who bets first on each round may change from round to round...
tournament. A few years later he earned entry into the Aussie Millions. After he bust from the first tournament, he put his entire $4,000 bankroll on the line in a cash game and spun it up to $100,000. By the end of the week he had lost it all.
Richard's first recorded win came at 2001 Grosvenor UK Open in Luton when he won £10,500 in the £100 Pot Limit Seven Card Stud Event. Since then, he's accrued over half a million dollars in live tournament winnings including final table finishes at the 2007 Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
GUKPT and the 2009 Aussie Millions, the latter of which earned him A$ 150,000 for his seventh place finish.
However, Richard openly admits that he needs to work on his live game, and is much better known as an online player, in particular on Black Belt Poker where was recently acquired as one of their sponsored pros in September 2010. Richard can often been seeing playing on the site in some of the highest stakes available, and against many of the biggest names in poker.
Richard's favoured game is Omaha, and he is good friends with fellow Omaha specialist Ben Grundy. For a while, they played in the same games, but eventually realised that it was a pointless exercise and decided to avoid each other from there on in. As well as Grundy, Richard considers France's David Benyamine
David Benyamine
David Benyamine is a French professional poker player with a World Poker Tour title. Benyamine was a professional tennis player in his early career but had to retire because of shoulder pain. He was also a successful top ten billiards player in France. He learned poker at the age of 12 and plays...
to be the best Omaha player in Europe, although he cites Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey
Phillip Dennis "Phil" Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables...
as the only player he would consider sitting out against.
In July 2009, Richard emerged as online poker's biggest cash winner when he earned a total of $1,824,074 over the four week period. This success garnered him much interest, in particular on the Two Plus Two forums where the nosebleed stakes are avidly followed.
On June 13, 2010 Richard won the World Series of Poker Event #21, a $1,500 seven card stud event, winning $140,467 in the process. He followed that success less than two weeks later by finishing 2nd in World Series of Poker Event #43, the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, netting him $378,027 in winnings.
On September 24, 2010 Richard won Event #54 of the World Championship Of Online Poker
World Championship of Online Poker
The World Championship of Online Poker is an online poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars. It is played on the PokerStars site in September....
, the $2,100 Pot Limit Omaha 6-max event. He was successful out of a field of 480 players, collecting his first WCOOP bracelet along with $185,760 in winnings.