Monday, 8 June 2015

Shane warne play poker when he misses the competition from cricket players


 “Yet there is a difference. At spin bowling he was the best in the world by a mile. In poker he is number 17,040. For someone so competitive, that must be quite a comedown.

"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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