Roy the boy launches an autobiography

rag2gar

Roy Brindley's new book has just been launched. I'm sure many of you will be interested as Roy is living and played pretty much all his poker here in Ireland over the past couple of years.

Here's the press release:

Life-long gambler Roy Brindley’s autobiography earning rave reviews

Professional gambler Roy Brindley’s much anticipated autobiography Life’s a Gamble – The High Stakes and Low Life of a Poker Professional finally goes on sale tomorrow Friday February 27. The book, crackling with dialogue and characters, in a narrative as fresh as any thriller, is already receiving rave reviews and much media excitement.

The author, winner of countless European ranking poker tournaments, has already featured in numerous newspaper articles and last weekend discussed his work on BBC Radio Five Live for its million plus listeners.

However, as the publication date nears 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.

Never before has a book about gambling created such a storm but in documenting his life – from the lows of living on the streets and in a prison cell through to landing six-figure sums playing poker – Roy has opened up a can of worms and shaken a hornets nest in one fell swoop.

What they are saying about Life’s a Gamble:

“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…”

Des Wilson, author of ‘Swimming with the Devilfish’ and ‘Ghosts at the Table’

“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.

Rogue Trader Nick Leeson: The world’s biggest gambler, the man who broke Barings Bank, author of ‘Back from the Brink’ and ‘Rogue Trader’.

cuterob

HIVeindhoven

That press release is ridiculous even by the low standards set by most press releases.

hf4z6sqo7vjngi

Jeez Gary i thought the whole i like/love Roy was a wind up. Find a new role model IMO

nicnicnic

Should be a good and topical read, hope its a success for Roy.

cuterob

i'm gonna buy it cause i'm nosey

Sparks43

looking foward to reading this myself

met roy many times over the last few years and its gonna be interesting to have a nose

AdMMM

So Gary, what's your screename on Ladbrokes?

kakak1

have my copy ordered & looking forward to it

BigCityBanker

I have my copy

tm2204

Picked it up in a bookshop in Wexford last weekend and ended up reading about 1/2 of it over 2 cups of coffee.

Enjoyed it.

The Tourist

nicnicnic wrote: »

Should be a good and topical read, hope its a success for Roy.

Me too (but I could have done without having it rammed down my neck morkeshing style).

pgodkin

cuterob wrote: »

i'm gonna buy it cause i'm nosey

I'm going to borrow it cause im busto!:D FYI lol at people who still read have u not heard of Itunes and audiobooks! Will this be on itunes soon?

Philip

Theresalwaysone

Gary get your head outta Roys arse.

jbravado

WTF this could be a decent read it could be a bad of misery who knows.LOL at people being irked by over zealous press releases(read ever?). Stop being quite so Irish FFS.

valor

this thread is VERY HARSH, as sIMOn would say

hotspur

Someone review it once they have read it please.

cuterob

valor wrote: »

this thread is VERY HARSH, as sIMOn would say

i'll put my hand up for starting the harshness

edit: lol

kincsem

I'm reading it at the moment. It is 303 pages and I have read about the first 50 pages, but I have an annoying habit of dipping into other chapters and have been reading chunks there. It is a good read, better than I had hoped. So far, so good. Like most poker players he likes a bet on other things (I'm guilty here).

I bought it in Dubray Books, Stillorgan. They don't have a great sports section, and the games section is mostly bridge and sudoku, so I was surprised they had it in stock.

He started playing poker in Ireland after seeing Noel Furlong win the WSOP on TV. Exactly the same here, except that on my first visit to a casino, the Merrion, one Wednesday night for a €20 hold 'em rebuy, Noel Furlong and Liam Flood were on my table. Wtf!

slavetothegrind

Finished it last night, got in waterstones jervis centre.

Thought it a very good read, not ghost written, seemed very honest warts and all.
He really explains addiction in telling his story, i read it through on sunday and last night, good flow to the book and found it hard to put down.
Fair play to him hope it does well for him!

Recommended reading:cool:

Russh

Odd OP in view of his apparant dislike of online poker forums and his contempt for poker players in general......

CourierCollie

Heres the plug he did on TV3 yesterday http://tv3.ie/videos.php?video=6312&locID=1.65.74&date=2009-03-04&date_mode=1&page=1&show_cal=2&newspanel=&showspanel=1&web_only=&full_episodes=

NickyOD

I started reading this yesterday and it's pretty good so far actually.

lillou

jbravado wrote: »

WTF this could be a decent read it could be a bad of misery who knows.LOL at people being irked by over zealous press releases(read ever?). Stop being quite so Irish FFS.

yes the irish are renowned for being irked by over zealous press releases.

won't buy it but will probably borrow it.

carfax

CourierCollie wrote: »

Heres the plug he did on TV3 yesterday http://tv3.ie/videos.php?video=6312&locID=1.65.74&date=2009-03-04&date_mode=1&page=1&show_cal=2&newspanel=&showspanel=1&web_only=&full_episodes=

Thought that interview was really good.

I'm going to buy the book (would have anyway ).

Tight Ted

carfax wrote: »

Thought that interview was really good.

I'm going to buy the book (would have anyway ).

Yeah this interview was brilliant, never realised poker was 100% a game of counting outs :rolleyes:, maybe he's talking about PLO.

NickyOD

Isn't it quicker to count the cards that aren't your outs in Omaha?

semibluff

cuterob wrote: »

cuterob wrote: »

i'm gonna buy it cause i'm nosey

bit of a contradiction there rob!!

is there much sickness about sports betting in it?

Flipper

Bought this in Waterstones in Cork. I got stuck in last night and so far, it's a good read. Congrats Roy

BigCityBanker

I started reading it last weekend, I got to the part where he was discussing being HU with Thorson in the Betfair E Open or w/e its called >> then I read the line which went something like this..

'id had a couple of small results in the previous year of about 40k or 50k, but nothing major, after all they are just small fry results in this game'

tbh, when I read that I feared that it was going to set a tone for the rest of the book and it seriously dampened my enthusiasm for continuing to read it, i havnt opened the book since. Like this was gonna be a huge result for 120k if he won it but 50k touches were insignificant.

strewelpeter

Tight Ted wrote: »

Yeah this interview was brilliant, never realised poker was 100% a game of counting outs :rolleyes:, maybe he's talking about PLO.

That's a bit unfair, it was a very good interview, Roy came over very well and gave as good an explanation of how he can get an edge as you are going to see in a two minute slot. The pair doing the interview are very competent.
TV3 wow!