Former WSOP Main Event Champ Arrested in Undercover Prostitution Sting
Greek myths mirror real life with tales of success and debauchery, pride and humiliation, and secrets that lead to results that are dastardly. We all remember poker pro Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow’s 2003 cocaine arrest that eventually led to a six-month stint in Clark County jail on charges of felony possession with intent to sell. In fact, the list of poker player scandals, maybe not surprisingly, is colorful indeed, and you can now add 2004 World group of Poker Main Event champion Greg Raymer to that list: he had been arrested in early March after responding up to a ad that is website prostitutes. Unfortuitously for him, the ad had been a sting arranged by North Carolina police, and he ended up being nabbed, one presumes, when he showed up to satisfy their hooker at a police-selected hotel. Raymer is married, and was allegedly looking for some action on the side. Although the story originally reported that it in fact was a prostitution that is male, that apparent mistake ended up being quickly amended. Whoops.
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Wake Forest, North Carolina police say that 48-yr-old Raymer ‘was one of six men whom reacted to an advertisement posted by undercover police on a web site usually employed by prostitutes.’
Wake Forest police chief Jeffrey Leonard included that ‘the locations prostitutes choose for this kind of criminal activity vary, and seldom remain similar for greater than a few days at time, helpi Continue reading