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Brighton chairman Tony Bloom gambling to keep them in the Premier League: 'Some people could say I am taking a big risk'

Brighton chairman Tony Bloom is a man of many guises: football club and race horse owner, poker player, professional gambler.

The high-rolling entrepreneur is notoriously private, so much so he barely gives an interview, sanctioning them scarcely to local papers and rarely discussing anything outside of football.

But reaching the Premier League has prompted Bloom to open up; about his obsession with gambling, his history with the football club he has supported since birth and how this investment is potentially the riskiest of them all.

Brighton chair Tony Bloom is a man of many guises:u00a0club owner and professional gambler
Brighton chair Tony Bloom is a man of many guises: club owner and professional gambler
Bloom has bankrolled his hometown football club into the big time of the Premier League
Bloom has bankrolled his hometown football club into the big time of the Premier League

Though Bloom has ploughed more than £200million into Brighton his wealth is unknown.