Alan Woods

He'd just applied for a job as a night cleaner at McDonald's when his friends introduced him to a man who would change his life.

Alan Woods was the leader of a card counting team that had recently arrived in Las Vegas.

Woods was then in his mid-30s with a swoop of grey hair and cold blue eyes.

Once an insurance actuary with a wife and two kids, he one day decided that family life just wasn't for him and began travelling the world as a professional gambler.