A British poker champion who moved to Thailand after earning £3.6million playing online has revealed he briefly ended up in jail after one of his friends was caught smoking cannabis at a party.
Richard Sheils moved to the sun-kissed country from Birmingham after becoming a professional gambler.
The 31-year-old economics graduate has been having the’ time of his life’, with a jet set lifestyle replete with wild parties and plenty of beach trips.
But he’s now revealed everything almost came crashing down when a brush with the law saw him nearly kicked out of the country. TRENDING
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‘I ended up going to jail in Thailand,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t my fault. It was the wrong place at the wrong time with the police. One of the Thai girls told the police we were having a drugs party. I let the police in saying there was nothing to worry about.’
What Mr Sheils didn’t realise, however, was that one of his friends was smoking cannabis, a drug which is now legal to grow and sell in the country but wasn’t at the time .
‘They found a bag of weed and all of sudden we were down in the police station,’ he continued. ‘It was a pretty stressful ordeal.’
After a night in the cells, he paid a fine and embarked on a three-month journey to secure his visa.Mr Sheils began playing poker in his childhood bedroom, and in 2015 earned £75,000 in two months along with his father, Matthew, and brother, Brandon .After his early success he dedicated himself to poker as a full time career, playing high-stakes games in Las Vegas over the Internet.The Birmingham University graduate said he […]
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