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03rd Apr 2013

Video: Check out the preview for ‘The Gambler’ on Setanta this weekend

Ever wondered what it would be like to lose €100,000 in a single day? If you do, ‘The Gambler’, a documentary airing on Setanta Sports this Friday, is well worth a watch. '

Conor Heneghan

Ever wondered what it would be like to lose €100,000 in a single day? If you do, ‘The Gambler’, a documentary airing on Setanta Sports this Friday, is well worth a watch.

‘The Gambler’ is a fly-on-the-wall documentary following professional gambler John O’Shea over six of the most important months in his gambling life, from the Irish Poker Open through to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and a lot of madness in between.

Produced by Jamie D’Alton, who produced the brilliant ‘We Got Game’ documentary on basketball in Ireland that was featured on Setanta Sports earlier this year, and directed by Ross Whitaker, who also directed the highly acclaimed ‘When Ali Came to Ireland’, ‘The Gambler’ charts the dizzying highs and terrifying lows of life as a professional gambler and documents the frankly astounding sums of money involved.

The odds are that it will be a cracking watch.

The Gambler will be aired on Setanta Sports on Friday, April 5 at 10pm.

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