Ross Brierley Brings 'Accumulator' to Underbelly

We often dream of landing the big one, where we can give the middle finger to the man and say we're going it alone. In 2010, after betting £10 on a horse racing accumulator, Ross Brierley hit the jackpot and decided to quit his job and become a professional gambler. What followed was a year of the inevitable high stakes and crushing lows. In the space of twelve months, he'd lost most of his money and some of his mind.

Holed up in a portakabin with a bizarre cast of fellow professional gamblers (including an Olympian Badminton champion and a Welsh football international), the long climb back up the ladder began, fending off money laundering investigations, ADHD diagnoses and Ray Winstone's Disembodied Head along the way. If there's odds-on certainty this year, it's that Accumulator is set to be one of the funniest, most surreal shows of the Fringe an energetic dive into what it takes to survive the puzzling, obsessive world of high stakes betting, told by a surging comedic talent in his debut solo show.

Ross Brierley started his comedy path in 2012 and was a finalist in the Hilarity Bites New Act of the Year competition after only four months of performing and won the Hot Water Comedy Club Comedian Of The Year in 2014.

He is also professional gambler, sports broadcaster, co creator of the viral hit UK Garage Horse Racing ('The funniest thing in the world' - Comedy Central) and host of the supremely daft Not So Late Show with fellow comedian Joshua Sadler, a live comedy chat show which made it's Fringe debut at the The Pleasance in 2017.

Underbelly, Daisy Room
Bristo Square
Medical School, Teviot Place
EH8 9AG
16:30 (1 hour show)
1st -27th August 2018 (not 14th)
£7.80-£10.80

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