TechGames Poker Tournament #6 - London
The London Tech Poker Tournament is back! 🙌🙌
Part of the global Techgames.xyz series of curated strategy game nights for founders, operators, and investors across NYC, SF, London, and other major tech hubs.
Expect London’s sharpest founders, operators, and investors rotating across tables in a high‑energy tournament and genuinely friendly competition.
New here? Welcome. If you’ve been before, you know the drill.
🧠 Who this is for
Tech founders with fire in their eyes
Operators ready to get off the sidelines
Investors who know a poker table reveals more than a coffee chat ever could
Regular attendees?
✅ T1-investors (Sequoia, Bessemer Ventures, a16z, Dawn Capital, etc)
✅ Operators with evidence of exceptional abilities (early at now unicorns, Olympiad winners, etc)
✅ VC-Backed founders ($1M-$100M+ raised)
❌ No Consultancies/agencies
❌ No Sales people
❌ No unexceptional students
❌ Sweaty unsocial poker player (this is a social event, not a casino!)
✅ All poker experience levels welcome — even if it’s your first time playing
🃏 Format
No-Limit Texas Hold’em Tournament
Blinds increasing every 20-30'
£20 buy-in - 1st hour rebuys allowed
👾 Why games?
We believe the best minds in tech are game thinkers.
Demis Hassabis crushed at chess before DeepMind. Zuck plays poker. Reid Hoffman reimagined Catan. Great players make great builders.
Poker reveals how someone thinks. It's instinct, math, timing, and emotional control — in public.
Zuck used to play poker every night with his cofounder Eduard Saverin in the early days of building Facebook
🕒 Logistics
📍 Location: Central location (exact address shared upon approval)
🕕 Doors open: 6pm
🃏 Cards on the table: 6:30pm
🎟️ Don’t miss out — request your seat
Space is tight and seats always fill fast. Apply early to secure your spot.
👾 About our partner
EXO is building frontier local AI. We make frontier models run locally by getting more intelligence out of a given amount of compute, through aggressive co-design across the stack. Our work spans post-training, speculative decoding, specialised GPU kernels, scheduling, and workload disaggregation. We care less about prior AI/ML experience than about how deeply you think, how quickly you learn, and how thoughtfully you attack hard problems. We’re hiring engineers and researchers in London and SF. Our team comes from Apple, Citadel, YC, and the IMO.
👾 About Us
TechGames.xyz runs curated game nights for founders, operators, and investors who prefer ideas over small talk and would rather build trust over a board than over drinks.
We’ve hosted 300+ events with 10,000+ startup attendees across SF, NYC, London, Berlin, and more.
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