Poker Player Turned eSports Star James Bardolph Shines Early

In addition to Daniel Kapadia, James Bardolph is the other eSports star who was sponsored for Day 1b of the Unibet Open London Main Event.

Bardolph shared with us that he has been playing poker for 13 years, so he is far from new to the game. In fact, he was playing poker before he was involved in eSports. The way he was professionally shuffling the chips proves this point as well.

While Bardolph doesn't have many live poker tournament cashes in his career according to The Hendon Mob, the two he does have were both final table finishes in lower buy-in events.

Thus far, things are going well for Bardolph as during the opening level he was able to increase his opening stack from 30,000 to 34,000 chips.