The remarkable true-life story of a man who escaped crime, poverty and addiction to become Europe's most successful poker player.

Roy Brindley has earned over a million pounds, has a contented family life, and owns an incredible house, a Porsche and a Ferrari. But he hasn't always had money to play with, nor even 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 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.