"I don't see it like that," Warne replies levelly,
fixing me with one blue eye and one green. He has a condition known as
heterochromia, which he discovered as a result of tweeting a selfie, asking his
2m followers, 'What does it mean to have 2 different coloured eyes? Anyone shed
some light? Thankyou."
The poker website Bluff puts Warne's total winnings at
$35,027 - which would not make much of a dent in his expensive lifestyle - but
far more lucrative are the sponsorship deals with gambling sites 888poker and
now Dafabet. The Warne brand has been a flexible source of cash, and over the
years has been applied to fast food, mobile phones, computer games, as well as
his own range of Spinners underwear (which went bust a couple of years ago).
Now, he's "sort of streamlined it and sort of said,
'OK, what do I really want to do?'" The answer is poker, his own beer made
by a New Zealand brewer and dubbed 99 Not Out, and sponsoring a hair transplant
company called Advanced Hair Studio. "It's pretty cool," he says,
contemplating these deals.
What with the sponsorships and commentating and his own
charitable foundation, he says he is so busy that he has had to erect white
boards in his homes - one in London, just by Lord's, and one in Melbourne -
with all his dates. He's booked up, he says, until August 2016.”
Source : http://www.afr.com/business/sport/shane-warne-on-enjoying-being-older-skin-care-and-playing-poker-20150608-ghj1qk
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