Former tennis star Boris Becker has revealed that poker debts incurred in a UK prison put his life in danger.
Becker is releasing a memoir, which reports on his time spent behind bars in 2022. The three-time Wimbledon winner was sentenced to 30 months in jail over his failure to turn over assets when declaring bankruptcy in 2017.
During this time, Becker said he played poker with inmates and racked up debt to Romanian criminals. Speaking to German media Suddeutsche Zeitung, Becker commented: “I had played poker professionally after tennis, so I thought,…