Former WSOP Main Event Champ Arrested in Undercover Prostitution Sting

Greek myths mirror real life with stories of success and debauchery, pride and humiliation, and secrets that lead to dastardly results. We all keep in mind poker pro Mike ‘The Mouth’ Matusow’s 2003 cocaine arrest that eventually led up to a stint that is six-month Clark County jail on charges of felony possession with intent to sell. In fact, the list of poker player scandals, perhaps not surprisingly, is colorful indeed, and you will add 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Greg Raymer to that particular list: he was arrested in very early March after responding up to a ad that is website prostitutes. Unfortunately he was nabbed, one presumes, when he showed up to meet his hooker at a police-selected hotel for him, the ad was a sting set up by North Carolina police, and. Raymer is married, and was allegedly looking for some action on the part. Even though story originally stated that it was a male prostitution ring, that apparent error was quickly amended. Whoops.

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Wake Forest, North Carolina police say that 48-yr-old Raymer ‘was one of six men who reacted to an advertisement posted by undercover police on a website usually used by prostitutes.’

Wake Forest police chief Jeffrey Leonard added that ‘the locations prostitutes choose for this kind of criminal activity vary, and seldom remain exactly the same for greater than a couple of days at a right time, making enforcement difficult Continue reading →