Poker star Daniel Negreanu has reported a $1 million extort plot in opposition to him to the FBI.
“What the hell is occurring?” Daniel Negreanu addresses the extortion try in his vlog, pictured within the screenshot above. (Picture: danielnegreanu.com)
The participant is at the moment in Las Vegas on the World Sequence of Poker and vlogging day by day about his experiences. They usually’re turning out to be fairly bizarre.
Simply days after a wierd encounter with flat-earther, anti-vaxxer, self-proclaimed “conspiracy realist,” and aspiring poker participant Sara Palmer, issues took a fair nastier flip. Palmer additional accused Negreanu on Twitter of intentionally “brushing previous her” within the hallway and “following her with a way of urgency” throughout a break in play.
Caught on Vlog
Her model of occasions appeared to vary from the vlog stream seen by Negreanu’s followers, which captured the alternate.
Within the video, Palmer, off-camera, seems to interrupt Negreanu, who’s in mid-flow, describing a hand he had simply performed.
“Do I do know you?” she asks.
I don’t know,” Negreanu replies, apparently seeing her for the primary time, perplexed. “You look acquainted, although. How are you? You good?”
“I used to be good till I noticed you,” she replied. “Preserve vaxxing these infants!”
“There’s that whacko from the web,” Negreanu advised his viewers, pulling a clumsy face.
Extortion Try
Then, final Thursday, Negreanu acquired the next, in all probability unrelated textual content message.
“I’m gonna go public for what you probably did to your loved ones in Lake Havasu. That was f*cked. I do know your little secret. The entire world’s gonna know.”
Negreanu stated he needed to lookup the place Lake Havasu was. It’s in Arizona. He was none the wiser.
Later, he performed a voicemail message from an nameless male caller who claimed, erroneously, the participant had deserted his spouse and youngsters in Lake Havasu.
I received all types of individuals attempting to hit me up, attempting to make this go public. However I’m providing you with an opportunity to make it proper, man, simply you realize what I imply?” growls the caller.
“You pay me off, no matter, I’ll hold quiet about it,” the caller continued. “I’ll signal a contract, however let me know.”
“What the precise f*ck is occurring this week?” demanded the 47-year-old Poker Corridor of Famer.
‘Issues Are available in Threes’
“These messages escalated to the purpose the place they began to get violent, threatening,” Negreanu advised the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal. “So, I introduced within the authorities and whatnot. I feel probably the most harmful factor is it’s clear he believes it. He thinks that is really true, which is the scary half.
“They are saying issues are available in threes,” he added. “You don’t need that type of factor to return in threes. It’s simply put me on alert that there are lots of people which might be unwell and I’m within the public eye, so I’m a goal.”
Because of this week’s experiences, Negreanu’s spouse, Amanda Leatherman, desires her husband to rent bodyguards throughout the Phrase Sequence.
It’s an concept the troubled, six-time WSOP bracelet winner is just not fully comfy with.
