RICH AS CREASES
A FOOL and his money are soon parted, so the saying goes. But Barton Creases would have to disagree. “I’ve still got all my money, and plenty more to boot,” he says. For Creases has spent his life amassing a fortune plying his trade as a professional gambler.
And the Osset-based 56-year-old says he has never regretted cashing in his chips as a plumber for the high-rolling life of a chance-taker.
“I left school at 16 and started an apprenticeship as a plumber, but after three days, I knew that life wasn’t for me and I jacked it in,” he says. “And I’d always been a bit of a gambler at school – betting 50p on which teacher would come out the staffroom next, 20p on the outcome of a fight in the bike sheds, that sort of thing – so I thought why not do it for a living?”
Barton took his chance, and for the last 40 years has been
