In a short piece by the BBC we get a brief glimpse into the life of two British poker pros, Luke "Fullflush1" Schwartz and Andrew Feldman who recently took part in the Full Tilt Million Dollar Challenge. Sitting at the wheel of his Bentley, Schwartz mentions he has won "about 5 to 10 million" in poker, while Feldman is quite open about the problems he's had with gambling.


The piece is aimed at the general public so inevitably the latter half of the 8-minute video is about the dangers of excessive gambling. Feldman talks about the worst day in his career, when at 18 he lost everything he had (more than £100,000) in just 36 hours. "When you're winning, you wanna win more, and when you're losing, you just wanna stay and get your money back," Feldman describes the cycle. His mother talks about it from a family members' point of view. It all ends with the narrator stating, quite reasonably but in somewhat overly dramatic tones, "It's true that the financial rewards can be huge for those with the right skills, but after seeing two of the game's stars in action first hand, I'm left wondering: At what price?"