Former poker blogger Jay Newnum is stepping away from poker after receiving probation for stealing from a dealer’s tip jar (Image: betraisefoldmovie.com)
If you are a poker blogger/reporter hired to cover a good-sized tournament at a major land casino, probably building a move ahead the dealer’s tip box is not your decision that is best ever. Apparently, not everybody grasps that reality, now from the ‚what were you thinking‘ files comes news that 41-year-old probably-not-anymore poker blogger Jay Newnum has received probation for stealing almost $700 while covering a Foxwoods casino poker tourney on December 16 of last year.
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The Fishers, Indiana writer apparently returned the stolen funds taken from the end box apparently snatched up using chopsticks, a visual we find pretty amusing throughout a Mega Stack Challenge $600 No-Limit Texas Hold’em tournament held at the Mashantucket that is popular casino.
Newnum will likely be allowed to take part in something called ‚accelerated rehabilitation,‘ a state court program which will wipe his record clean if he makes it through the probation period without using chopsticks on anything but chow mein and moo goo gai pan. Newnum dodged a bullet with this specific sentencing, as a maximum could have been brought by this class B misdemeanor of six months in jail as well as up to $1,000 in punitive fines.
Despite the event occurring back in mid-Dec (mehr …)