This is my true story of becoming a professional card counter and my ten year journey through North American casinos. It’s told with humour ,...

Theodore Bradley
Theodore Bradley

Theo Bradley grew up on a small farm in Northern Ontario, Canada. His days were full of fields, fences, chores and chickens. Weekend evenings were big kitchen parties with guitars, fiddles and laughter, but week nights were crickets and reading in bed, pleading with Mom to stay up for one more hour to finish the book.  

At fifteen he left home and hit the road with a Quarter Horse Games team from a nearby town. They landed in the smokey mountains of South Carolina. In a few short months he had his own apartment, car and a job exercising race horses on Fairview Farms.

He returned to his home town a couple of years later to finish high school, and took a part time job writing for the local paper. The philosophy department at the University of Windsor would become his new home for the next few years after high school. Then adventure beckoned once again. 

Many years in the music business culminated in co writing seven albums for major record labels, a hit song in Germany on BMG and countless production and writing credits for independent artists.

Theo then returned to his hometown where he accepted a job as the Manager of Arts and Culture and operated a century old live theatre for nine years.   

His penchant for adventure and new experience never left him.  He dabbled in motorcycle drag racing, skydiving, and alpine skiing. His latest challenge and the subject of his book Vegas Called, They Want Their Money Back, is card counting.  His future plans include writing fiction which implicitly chronicle his exciting adventures and explore the wisdom offered by saying "absolutely" to life.  


Books

Gypsy Ride: Tall Tales of Rusty and Levi

Horses, hillbillies, moonshine and supernatural ‘cowboys’. Ride along with Levi and Rusty on their ridiculous adventures set in the fictional town of Burl Creek, South Carolina in the mid nineteen seventies. Chase reality down on horses and airplanes in search of the elusive truth and the deliverance of justice for the good. Thought provoking,...

VEGAS CALLED, THEY WANT THEIR MONEY BACK: The True Story of a Card Counter’s Adventure

This is my true story of becoming a professional card counter and my ten year journey through North American casinos. It’s told with humour , colourful prose and cynical jibes pointed at corporatized gambling. It has crime, heart break, adventure, loss and triumph. It is also an expose and commentary on the darker side of gambling and the casino...

Other Writing

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Ingredients of Freedom

What is freedom? Where do we get our notions of freedom? Is freedom granted by politicians and authorities, or is our freedom apriori, or innate…does it reside within as part of our being? Is freedom our birthright? John Locke (1632-1704), one of the great influential philosophers of his period, argued against the prevailing belief of his time that God made all people the subjects of Monarchs.

Accordingly, God gave monarchs the power to bestow...

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Latest Updates

Gypsy Ride is available online at amazon!! Gypsy Ride is finally complete

Gypsy Ride is finally complete and available on amazon.
The adventures of Rusty and Levi begin in small town South Carolina
and traverse the country to the pyramids in Mexico....

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Events

Meet Theodore Bradley at the Shipyards in Gravenhurst Ontario Canada on August 9th between 11 am and 3 pm for a 'Meet the Author' event.
Signed copies of both his new books will be available for sale. Find out which parts of 'Gypsy Ride' are true.

Vegas Called, They Want Their Money Back

Gypsy Ride