{"id":742017,"date":"2013-03-15T16:47:44","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=221121"},"modified":"2013-03-15T16:47:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T20:47:44","slug":"poker-champ-arrested-in-prostitution-sting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/742017","title":{"rendered":"Poker Champ Arrested in Prostitution Sting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/poker\">Poker<\/a> player Greg Raymer may have used all of his luck up at the tables.  The 48-year-old was caught this week during a prostitution sting in Wake Forest, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh news outlet WRAL is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/six-men-arrested-in-wake-forest-prostitution-sting\/12226875\/\">reporting<\/a> that Raymer was one of five men picked up for soliciting prostitution at a hotel sting set up by police on Wednesday, March 13.  Raymer and the other men allegedly responded to a fake online ad posted by police.<\/p>\n<p>Raymer has been charged with prostitution and attempted crimes against nature.  He was released on a $1,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in court on April 18.<\/p>\n<p>Raymer won money in the 2001 World Series of Poker, where he left with $1,500 from the Omaha hi-lo split 8 or better event.  In 2004, Raymer rocketed to fame when he won the no limit Texas hold &#8216;em event at that year&#8217;s World Series of Poker, claiming a $5 million prize.  Since that time, Raymer has gone on to win money at a variety of poker tournaments and now operates a poker training school called Fossilman Poker Training, which offers online classes or in-person seminars at casinos across the U.S.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=6SeMjtKMiXU:4ji5xlRUYmk:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/6SeMjtKMiXU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poker player Greg Raymer may have used all of his luck up at the tables. The 48-year-old was caught this week during a prostitution sting in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Raleigh news outlet WRAL is reporting that Raymer was one of five men picked up for soliciting prostitution at a hotel sting set up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-3721","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}