Poker Player Confesses To Murder
No poker news of this past week would be complete without mention of the Van Der Sloot story. In case you haven’t heard, Joran van Der Sloot, once best known for his poker playing prowess, has confessed to murder.
After dodging police in Lima for a while, van der Sloot eventually turned himself in and confessed to the murder 21-year-old Stephany Flores, of Peru. The mode of murder is being called a “beating death”.
Before heading to Lima for that fateful event that will probably land him in prison for the rest of his life, Joran Van Der Sloot had just attended a much more benign event, a poker event, appearing at the PokerStars 2010 Latin American Poker Tour, though only to watch.
During his now soon-to-be long gone poker days, Van der Sloot won a 2009 Party Poker tournament for a cash payday of more than $12,000, and in general he has been a player in no less than 5 online poker sites, most recognizably under the username AANOTILTKK which he used when playing at Party Poker, but also angryshark68 while playing at Poker Stars and UB.com, and pokerpro68of when playing at Full Tilt Poker.
Van Der Sloot was also the prime suspect in Natalie Holloway’s disappearance in 2005 from Aruba and in addition to Stephany Flores’ beating murder, which he calls an accident, is being charged with extortion for allegedly telling Holloway’s mother 5 years ago that he would tell her where Natalie’s body is for the price of $25,000, which police fronted in the hopes of catching him in a sting operation for the disappearance and believed murder.
