Poker news tagged with 'murder'

In March 2014, poker player Mehmet Hassan was found dead in his London flat after his sister became concerned about his welfare and called the police. The police suspected that it was a premeditated burglary and it didn't take long before they arrested and charged three people (Leonie Granger, Kyrron Jackson and Nicholas Chandler) with murder, robbery and false imprisonment.

Read more » The Murder of Poker Player Mehmet Hassan: Trial Underway

Britsh poker pro Marcus Bebb-Jones, 49, was arrested at his home in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, in 2009 for the murder of his wife Sabrina, 31, in 1997. He admitted second-degree murder, telling police he killed his wife in a "heat of passion". On Wednesday, bbc news wrote that he had been jailed at Garfield County Court for 20 years, but his sentence will be reduced to reflect the time he has severed awaiting the trial.

Read more » British Poker Pro Jailed For 20 Years!

Michael Kuhlman, 36, was shot and killed in his home in Saginaw Township, USA in May 2012 while hosting a poker party. One man was charged in the case, 24-year-old Quintel West, but on Monday the trial was delayed after the defence attorney claimed to have found a witness that could help her client.

Read more » New Witness Comes Forward In Murder Case

Yesterday, a 15-year-old boy way charged with second-degree murder for shooting 28-year-old Kearn Nedd to death at  a charity poker tournament last year. Nedd, a mixed martial arts fighter, tried to stop 2 masked men with guns from robbing the event at the Rozz Banquet Hall in Bramption, Ontario.

The 130 people who were participating in the tournament could just watch Nedd being shoot by the boy, who was 14 at the time. The robbers then took off in a waiting vehicle. Nedd died after being taken to a hospital.

The other robber, Samir Abdelgadir, 30, was also charged earlier this month with accessory after the fact to murder.

Ernie Scherer III is the name of a poker player who did very well in different live tournaments between 2003-2006. In total he has won around $340,000 in different live tournaments. Unfortunately Scherer always found it very hard to hold on to his money, and the expenses always been greater than his incomes. Scherer was so buried in debts last year that he decided to take very, very drastic measures.

He drove from Las Vegas to his parents home in Pleasanton, California and stabbed them multiple times in the neck, then drove back to his home in Las Vegas, where his wife and baby son were waiting for him. Ernie Scherer III was less than a year away from inheriting upward of $1 million.

Read more » Poker Pro could face death penalty

Ron Fanelli made a living from poker during the first half of 2000 and became a well known face on the TV channel Poker Channels program, mostly thanks to the british journalist and poker player Victoria Coren, one of the channel's hosts. Ron Fanelli moved to Thailand in 2006 and quickly got married and had a kid with his wife. A few years later, his wife left him to the other side of the country and took their kid with her. After this, things started going really bad for Fanelli as he started sleeping with prostitutes and drink lots of alcohol frequently.

Read more » Poker Pro arrested for murder & dismemberment

Exactly 5 years after Joran Van der Sloot was questioned for the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, he has now been linked to the murder of 21-year-old Stephany Flores, whose body was found in Lima on Wednesday. Joran Van der Sloot was stopped and questioned by police in central Chile after traveling hundreds of miles south of the border.

However, no arrest warrant has been issued - though he's still one of the main suspects. So, what does all this have to do with poker? The Latin American Poker Tour was being held close to where Van der Sloot was stopped, and rumors say that he was in that area to take part in the tournament. We will probably hear more about this in the next few days.

A Broward County man was arrested the other day on suspicion of killing his wife. The arrested man and his wife were well-known in South Florida poker circles as they used to play a lot at the Pompano Beach Casino and also because their son runs a poker league that hosts games at bars all over South Florida.

Read more » Poker Player accused of murdering his wife

A professional poker player in USA is suspected to have killed both his parents. But the poker player denies and claims that he's innocent. The motive for murdering both his parents is that the poker player had a lot of debts and wanted to inheritance his their fortune of $1,3 million dollars.

Read more » Poker player denies to have killed both his parents