After a relentless battle to get hold of the gambler who was to take part in the documentary and get a more detailed interview from him I have had to admit defeat. I managed to track him down last week as he stopped in Doncaster on his way to London. Only to find him totally inebriated and I mean so drunk he did not recognise me and forgot about the meeting. I had to put him on his train in which he got back of to find out where I was going and then became aggressive and verbally abusive, I left and there has been no further contact. I have left him message saying I'm going to use an actor in his place. He has signed a contract allowing me to use events from his life. I'll change the name and maybe mould the character around the actor. I would have preferred to use the gambler in interviews and then use and actor to play his life.
The documentary may go more in the direction of a docu-drama, the reason is if the gambler becomes a set up then why not all of it. As long as the elements it will give me more scope to make the documentary interesting.
I may add a live heads up game at the end of the documentary as a build up and I think a live game will be more exciting to watch. I would prefer to set up the situations as I have the choice of the hands that are played. I will be playing a live game over Skype and depending the outcome will be my outcome in the live game. I no this is kind of cheating but I want to really give the exciting parts of poker, if there is such a thing anyone can get a string of good hands and win a heads up game so by setting up and having control of camera shots, the hands played I can build the tension to make it more interesting.
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