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Life's a Gamble : The High Stakes and Low Life of a Poker Professional, Paperback / softback Book

Life's a Gamble : The High Stakes and Low Life of a Poker Professional Paperback / softback

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Roy Brindley has earned over a million pounds, has a contented family life, owns an incredible house and both a Porsche and a Ferrari.

But he's not always had money to play with. In fact, he hasn't always had a home. Addicted to gambling like the majority of his family, Roy spent his teens and twenties in the bookies and, week in, week out, frittered away his entire pay packet as he attempted to chase his losses.

By the time he was twenty-eight he was on the run from the police and living out of a cardboard box in Southsea.

In 2002 he finally ended up in court and decided to turn his life around.

After a chance viewing of the Hollywood poker film Rounders, he at last put his phenomenal mathematical talent to constructive use, and his domination of the European poker circuit began. From his dysfunctional early years, through a career as a greyhound trainer and journalist before playing cards for cash became his vocation, the story of Roy the Boy is both an inspirational rags-to-riches story of a man who learnt to trust something other than lady luck, and a fascinating insight into the glamorous, celebrity-filled and ever-more-popular world of poker.

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