BBC Radio has interviewed a Nuneaton man about potentially buying the English Football League Two side Coventry City from his $10m+ poker winnings.
I blame Fedor Holz.
The lad barely makes it out of his teenage years, starts playing poker, and a few years later he is the star of the Lewis Howes podcast after winning $26.5m in the time it takes you to strike a match.
And now everyone thinks it’s easy money.
Dan Bilzerian tells everyone that he gave his Trust Fund money to his brother because he didn’t need it after winning millions of dollars playing high stakes cash games with crap billionaires, and now Dale Evans is at it.
Dale who?
Exactly.
A man called Dale Evans recently appeared on BBC Radio talking to Clive Eakin about his plans to buy the English Football League (EFL) League Two side Coventry City, and he said he was able to buy the football club because of his luck on the poker tables.
The Coventry Telegraph published parts of the transcript where Evans, from Nuneaton, told the BBC that he was in discussions with the Head of Marketing and Communications at Coventry about buying the club, and had earmarked a date to talk with Chairman Tim Fisher, next week.
Evans told the BBC that has been a City fan his entire life and promised to buy the club, clear out the debt, and have it all done in time to hang 1975 chocolate liqueurs on his Christmas tree.
So where did Evans get enough money to buy a football club?
Poker, of course.
“I had quite a big windfall of around £10m, and then I played some more, and I had another big windfall.”
As a top quality reporter, I worked my nuts off trying to prove Evans’s claims, ultimately deciding that the European and World Poker Tour champion, Niall Farrell, was a man of sound judgment.
“It sounds like someone talking a load of old shite,” said Farrell, “Also no-one who makes their money from poker would ever use the word ‘windfall'”
I knew it.
Things aren’t going well at Coventry City.
Sky Blues Manager, Mark Robbins, told fans that they were right to boo his side recently, as he also booed them. Then this loyal and faithful fan ran onto the pitch to protest about his team’s lack of oomph.
Coventry reacted to the man’s heartfelt plea by banning him for life.
I’m started to think we should do the same to Holz. The man is creating carnage out there.
