Daniel Negreanu Extorted for $1M at World Series of Poker
Poker asterisk Daniel Negreanu has reported a $1 zillion rack secret plan against him to the FBI.
The participant is currently inward Las Vegas at the World Series of Poker and vlogging daily near his experiences. And they’re turn out to follow pretty weird.
Just years after a strange coming upon with flat-earther, anti-vaxxer, self-proclaimed “conspiracy realist,” and aspiring poker game participant Sara Palmer, things took an yet nastier turn.
Palmer had accused Negreanu on Twitter of deliberately “brushing yesteryear her” inward the hall and “following her with a sensory faculty of urgency” during a gap inward play.
Her version of events appeared to differ from the vlog well out seen past Negreanu’s fans, which captured the exchange.
In the video, Palmer, off-camera, appears to disrupt Negreanu, who is inwards mid-flow, describing a manus he had simply played.
“Do I live you?” she asks.
“I don’t know,” he replies, seemingly seeing her for the number one time, perplexed. “You look familiar, though. How are you? You good?”
“I was unspoilt until I saw you,” she replied. “Keep vaxxing those babies!”
“There’s that whacko from the internet,” Negreanu told his audience, pulling an ill at ease(p) face.
Extortion Attempt
Then, endure Thursday, Negreanu received the following, likely unrelated textual matter message.
“I’m gonna depart public for what you did to your sept inward Lake Havisu. That was f*cked. i live your little secret. The unit world’s gonna know.”
Negreanu said he had to looking up where Lake Havisu was. It’s inwards Arizona. He was none the wiser.
Later, he played a voicemail subject matter from an anonymous manlike caller-up who claimed, erroneously, the participant had abandoned his married woman and children inwards Lake Havisu.
I got all kinds of people trying to hitting me up, trying to make water this go away public. But I’m gift you a chance to piddle it right, man, just you cognise what i mean?” growls the caller.
“You pay off me off, whatever, I’ll stay fresh restrained virtually it,” the phoner continued. “I’ll mark a contract, but permit me know.”
“What the actual f*ck is sledding on this week?” demanded the 47-year-old Poker Granville Stanley Hall of Famer.
‘Things Come in Threes’
“These messages escalated to the head where they started to capture violent, threatening,” Negreanu told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “So, I brought in the authorities and whatnot. I cerebrate the most severe thing is it’s open he believes it. He thinks this is really true, which is the scary part.
“They say things follow inwards threes,” he added. “You don’t require that sorting of thing to come inwards threes. It’s just now position me on awake(p) that on that point are a lot of people that are unwell and I’m in the public eye, so I’m a target.”
As a resultant of this week’s experiences, Negreanu’s wife, Amanda Leatherman, wants her husband to employ bodyguards during the Word Series.
It’s an thought the troubled, six-time WSOP bangle winner is non exclusively well-off with.