Sporting Chancer (eBook)

One Man's Journey to Take On the World

Ed Hawkins (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
192 Seiten
Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-908051-25-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Ed Hawkins grew up around gambling. Instead of going to school, he followed his father, a horseracing journalist, around the courses of the UK. From an early age he learnt that bookies never give anything away. So when he lost a misguided gamble on his career, he doubled up on reflex - deciding to wager his way around the globe. Initially gambling his way across Australia, he meets triumph and disaster at one of the world's biggest casinos with witty self-deprecation. He embarrasses himself playing poker with Hollywood's finest at the World Series in Las Vegas, challenges world champion Phil Taylor to a game of darts, fights roosters with Britney Spears' babysitter and fleeces pensioners on planes. Hawkins tries anything to stay afloat, ending up in a Glasgow bingo hall hoping to land the same long odds that stare back at him from the mirror, having been diagnosed with a rare illness.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Spielen / Raten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• ISBN-10: 1-908051-25-6 / 1908051256
• ISBN-13: 978-1-908051-25-7 / 9781908051257