One of the most appealing aspects of poker is that almost any person can play it. It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female, nationality isn’t an issue, and able-bodied or physically impaired people can still enjoy the thrill of the game.
Carl Pilgrim, 45, falls into that final category, a talented and devoted poker player who happened to be born with Muscular Dystrophy, a hereditary and incurable muscle-wasting disease.
“I was born in 1971 in Colchester, and born with a type of Muscular Dystrophy (MD) called Limb-girdle Type 2i, which is basically a muscle wasting disease,” Pilgrim explains.