The Gambler - John O'Shea Documentary (Setanta Ireland 10pm)

opr

Friday, April 5th at 10pm

The Gambler is a new documentary from award-winning director Ross Whitaker (Saviours, When Ali Came To Ireland) that follows Irish professional gambler John O’Shea for one year and will screen on Setanta Sports on Friday night, at 10 pm.

The documentary follows O'Shea from his appearance at the Irish Poker Open through to the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and covers some pretty significant wagers in between while all the time examining what it's like to live the life of a professional gambler.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8bxzk7TYB4

Opr

Mr E

I set it on Sky+ this morning, looks great.

Also worth noting that it's listed as a freeview program, so it should be available even if you don't have a Setanta subscription (hopefully!)

Dommy

Im in work this evening so would like to be able to watch this streaming, any ideas if a Setanta Ireland Stream is available anywhere?

opr

I think you can stream Setanta through Eircom site online if you're a customer with them but apart from that they don't offer an online streaming service.

Opr

Dommy

Argh I have Eircom here but not a home package unfortunately, cheers

captainbirdseye

Will this be shown again?

the whole year inn

Love to watch this, and will watch it !!

Mr E

captainbirdseye wrote: »

Will this be shown again?

Maybe some time, but not in the next week (I just searched for it on the Sky+ app).

fluff_daddy

Mr E wrote: »

Maybe some time, but not in the next week (I just searched for it on the Sky+ app).

i missed it too - Might get it online somewhere

Shutter Island

Just watched it there.

What an odious human being

randomCluster

Shutter Island wrote: »

Just watched it there.

What an odious human being

He's actually a nice guy, comes from a lovely family.

STADEdeLUC

Hopefully it'll be online in a few days! Love to of seen it!

HPK5

Will be repeated on setanta next saturday I think.

fluff_daddy

It is repeated on 15th & 19th April on Setanta Ireland @ 10pm

InReality

just saw it there now. he said between himself and his mates there was about 1/4 million on the bayern match ?

interesting show , would like to know how he go the money to get started in it , was it off his dad or did he ever have a job ..

he might have a different psychology about it if he ever realized how hard it is to earn the sort of money he bets

fluff_daddy

DAMMIT forgot all about it

DerekDGoldfish

InReality wrote: »

just saw it there now. he said between himself and his mates there was about 1/4 million on the bayern match ?

interesting show , would like to know how he go the money to get started in it , was it off his dad or did he ever have a job ..

he might have a different psychology about it if he ever realized how hard it is to earn the sort of money he bets

They mentioned in the documentry that he trained in KPMG, he wouldnt have been on good money while training so he must have worked his way up from small stakes.

Surprised how much he seemed to bet on a whim on sports he said he didnt understand or watch, while I can understand the mentality of pro poker players or people who follow movements in the markets for football or other sports I find it hard to understand the kind of money he was putting on sports he had no knoledge of seemingly on a whim or opinion of a friend.

keane2097

DerekDGoldfish wrote: »

They mentioned in the documentry that he trained in KPMG, he wouldnt have been on good money while training so he must have worked his way up from small stakes.

Surprised how much he seemed to bet on a whim on sports he said he didnt understand or watch, while I can understand the mentality of pro poker players or people who follow movements in the markets for football or other sports I find it hard to understand the kind of money he was putting on sports he had no knoledge of seemingly on a whim or opinion of a friend.

On the opinion of friends who happen to be the best sports bettors in the country in their various areas of expertise.

Shutter Island

His performance on the Late Late didn't do anything to endear me to him

siblers

Shutter Island wrote: »

His performance on the Late Late didn't do anything to endear me to him

More down to Ryan's awful interview technique, if you watch the actual documentary he comes across as a really genuine guy who just happens to have a very unique way of making money. There was one point in the interview where he tried to mention about thanking people who donate organs but Ryan pretty much ignored him.

Ya-Boy-Ya

Does anyone know if its possible to download this as an AVI file ????