WSOP Participant Apparently Gained Bracelet Whereas Awaiting Trial for Intent to Homicide Spouse
In keeping with Poker Information, a person awaiting trial for allegedly trying to homicide his spouse is believed to have gained a World Sequence of Poker bracelet in an internet sport in Michigan final week.
Rudy Gavaldon is featured in a photograph uploaded to his Fb web page. (Picture: Fb)
In keeping with the Traverse Metropolis File-Eagle, Rudy Gavaldon, a 36-year-old electrician from Traverse Metropolis, was arraigned on Aug. 1, 2022, on the cost of assault with intent to commit homicide.
So, both Gavaldon or somebody utilizing his display identify (“Flyheim86”) gained $20K and an internet bracelet for taking first place within the WSOP Occasion #3: $500 No-Restrict Maintain’em Turbo 6-Max match on June 18, 2023.
Six days earlier, Gavaldon’s account additionally gained $2,858 for ending third in WSOP On-line Circuit Sequence Occasion #12. And on June 4, his account gained $1,242 for a Tenth-place WSOP on-line bracelet occasion end.
The Alleged Assault
On July 29, 2022, based on the File-Eagle, neighbors phoned police after Gavaldon knocked on doorways after midnight, carrying his 9-month-old little one and telling individuals he was dying.
The responding sheriff’s deputies discovered Gavaldon and his little one strolling within the highway. He informed them his spouse was dying and wanted medical assist at their home up the highway.
The officers took custody of the toddler, who was later returned to its mom. They discovered Lara Gavaldon on the home with life-threatening accidents. She was transported to a close-by hospital and finally medevaced to Grand Rapids Hospital.
Galvadon was arrested and arraigned for the alleged assault, based on Poker Information, in addition to for being a ordinary offender. In 2011, he pleaded responsible to larceny in a constructing and third-degree residence invasion, for which he was sentenced to 11 months in jail and 36 months of probation.
The sufferer was handled and finally recovered, although apparently with out her proper eye. In keeping with a publish on Lara Gavaldon’s Instagram account, she is being fitted for a prosthetic. The publish additionally claimed her now ex-husband was beneath the affect of medicine and alcohol on the time of the alleged assault.
WSOP.com doesn’t launch private details about occasion winners past their names and locations of residence. Nevertheless, a number of public data searches affirm that nobody else by the identify Rudy Gavaldon resides in Traverse Metropolis, Mich.
Poker Information reported contacting the Grand Traverse Correctional Facility, which verified that Gavaldon wasn’t in custody throughout any of the beforehand talked about tournaments as a result of he has been free, awaiting trial, since August 2022.
Gavaldon pleaded not responsible at a pretrial listening to within the thirteenth District Court docket in Grand Traverse County on June 23.
