“RAISE 2,000,” I say, and toss my chips on to the table. My face is carved from granite, but my heart thumps so loudly it could start its own drum ‘n’ bass label. In any big poker tournament there’s always one Table of Death, the one table where all the top pros happen to be ...
Day Two: Better the ...
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THE first official tournament in the World Series of Poker Europe. The globe’s very best players… and me. With a hangover. Last night I was at the WSOPE launch party at London’s glamorous Casino at the Empire, drinking with ex-World Champs like Chris “Jesus”...
Editor
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Dominic edited Time Out magazine from 1992-1998, at his peak selling 470,000 copies a month; he was editorial director of AOL (UK) 1999-2002; and launched and edited the Saturday Times’s arts magazines 2002-2007. He has won the BSME award for Editor of the Year four times. Click here for more
Marketeer
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Dominic originated and saw through many advertorial series at the Times, for clients including Kraft, Hewlett Packard, Comet and the Australian and Canadian Tourist Boards. Since then he has edited a glossy 140pp book for London Underground, produced an advertorial series for Courvoisier, and...
Screenwriter
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Dominic has co-written a 30-minute featurette, Animal Charm, which premieres in LA in May. A dark comedy set in the world of high fashion, it stars Sadie Frost and Sally Phillips, with a cameo by Boy George. He continues to work with the director, Ben Charles Edwards, with another short just...
Journalist
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Dominic has interviewed some of the greats: David Bowie, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kylie Minogue, Michael Gambon, Richard O’Brien and, er, William Shatner. He specialises in film, and on occasion has acted as film reviewer for The Times. He also writes about poker and travel, and knows more than is strictly healthy about comics and graphic novels. Click here to read features.
Poker Fiend
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Dominic has written and blogged about poker for The Times, Time Out, City AM, London Lite, the Evening Standard and the Sun. In the last seven years the game has taken him to Vegas (7x), Atlantic City, Macau, Paradise Island, Paris, Rome, Dublin and swinging from a crane above London’s City Hall. His biggest cash was £3,700 at the World Series of Poker Europe. He is seeking a publisher for a book about his experiences. Click here for poker articles and blog.
David Lynch: The Roa...
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David Lynch, reticent purveyor of wall-to-wall cinematic weirdness, is back with ‘Lost Highway’. It may well be his oddest offering yet, upping his ante on the even his last film, 1992’s reviled ‘Twin Peaks:Fire Walk With Me’. And no he doesn’t want to talk...