Roy Brindley's Explosive Autobiography Out Now

Poker pro and Card Player writer Roy Brindley's explosive new autobiography hits the shops ahead of this weekend amid a wave of publicity. Poker professional, broadcaster, writer are all words easily associated with Roy Brindley. Perhaps less easily identifiable are depressive, homeless, lawless, and terminally unlucky.

Brindley, in his new autobiography, ‘Life’s a Gamble - The High Stakes and Low Life of a Poker Professional’, published by Random House imprint Bantam Press on February 26, lays bare his volatile past in a book that will stun many in the poker and gambling worlds.

Born into a family of gamblers, young Brindley was a loner and his only dream was ‘the big score.’ His gambling soon developed into an addiction and he drifted in and out of ‘normal’ society, usually broke, training greyhounds, hustling places to stay and chasing his dream in North America.

A move to Ireland and chance viewing of poker movie Rounders fuelled a new poker addiction in his early 30s and soon Brindley would be Europe’s first sponsored player — often igniting the wrath of the poker cognoscenti — winning huge sums of money across the continent and frequently losing it all again in moments of weakness.

The author last weekend discussed his work on BBC Radio Five Live for its million plus listeners and as the publication date arrives the media frenzy surrounding his controversial memoirs reaches boiling point. Today, Thursday February 26, he has been booked for seven radio station interviews following an appearance on specialist horse racing channel Racing UK.

The book pulls no punches as Brindley describes in often aching (and frequently hilarious) detail his raw life. As Jesse May, the ‘voice of poker’ says in his foreword, “This is a blasting, naked account of what it is to be a gambler …he’s coming at you with nothing left out.”

Des Wilson, author of ‘Swimming with the Devilfish’ and ‘Ghosts at the Table’, says, “One of the best insights into the heart and mind of a gambler ever written.  Moving and uplifting and for poker-lovers, a must-read…”

While rouge trader Nick Leeson says, “Raw, unashamed yet gripping emotion from flag-fall. Finally someone tells a gamblers lot how it is and, through amazing circumstance, he comes out on top.

Read Brindley’s blog at CardPlayer.com and look out for a review of the book and interview with the man himself in the April issue of Card Player Poker + Sport.

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