{"id":217096,"date":"2022-06-13T13:39:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T20:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=217096"},"modified":"2022-06-16T16:10:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:10:35","slug":"daniel-negreanu-extorted-for-1m-at-world-series-of-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/daniel-negreanu-extorted-for-1m-at-world-series-of-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Negreanu Extorted for $1M at World Series of Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poker star Daniel Negreanu<\/a> has reported a $1 million extort plot against him to the FBI.<\/p>\n

\"Negreanu\"
\u201cWhat the hell is going on?\u201d Daniel Negreanu addresses the extortion attempt in his vlog, pictured in the screenshot above. (Image: danielnegreanu.com)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The player is currently in Las Vegas at the World Series of Poker<\/a> and vlogging daily about his experiences. And they\u2019re turning out to be pretty weird.<\/p>\n

Just days after a strange encounter with flat-earther, anti-vaxxer, self-proclaimed \u201cconspiracy realist,\u201d and aspiring poker player Sara Palmer, things took an even nastier turn. Palmer further accused Negreanu on Twitter of deliberately \u201cbrushing past her\u201d in the hallway and \u201cfollowing her with a sense of urgency\u201d during a break in play.<\/p>\n

Caught on Vlog<\/h2>\n

Her version of events appeared to differ from the vlog stream seen by Negreanu\u2019s fans, which captured the exchange.<\/p>\n

In the video, Palmer, off-camera, appears to interrupt Negreanu, who is in mid-flow, describing a hand he had just played.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I know you?\u201d she asks.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know,\u201d<\/strong> Negreanu replies, apparently seeing her for the first time, perplexed. \u201cYou look familiar, though. How are you? You good?\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI was good until I saw you,\u201d she replied. \u201cKeep vaxxing those babies!\u201d<\/p>\n

“There’s that whacko from the internet,” Negreanu told his audience, pulling an awkward face.<\/p>\n

Extortion Attempt <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Then, last Thursday, Negreanu received the following, probably unrelated text message.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m gonna go public for what you did to your family in Lake Havasu. That was f*cked. I know your little secret. The whole world\u2019s gonna know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Negreanu said he had to look up where Lake Havasu was. It\u2019s in Arizona. He was none the wiser.<\/p>\n

Later, he played a voicemail message from an anonymous male caller who claimed, erroneously, the player had abandoned his wife and children in Lake Havasu.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 got all kinds of people trying to hit me up, trying to make this go public. But I\u2019m giving you a chance to make it right, man, just you know what I mean?\u201d <\/strong>growls the caller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou pay me off, whatever, I\u2019ll keep quiet about it,\u201d the caller continued. \u201cI\u2019ll sign a contract, but let me know.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the actual f*ck is going on this week?\u201d demanded the 47-year-old Poker Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n

\u2018Things Come in Threes\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201cThese messages escalated to the point where they started to get violent, threatening,\u201d Negreanu told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/em> \u201cSo, I brought in the authorities and whatnot. I think the most dangerous thing is it\u2019s clear he believes it. He thinks this is actually true, which is the scary part.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say things come in threes,\u201d he added. \u201cYou don\u2019t want that sort of thing to come in threes. It\u2019s just put me on alert that there are a lot of people that are unwell and I\u2019m in the public eye, so I\u2019m a target.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result of this week\u2019s experiences, Negreanu\u2019s wife, Amanda Leatherman, wants her husband to hire bodyguards during the Word Series.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an idea the troubled, six-time WSOP bracelet winner is not entirely comfortable with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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