Previous poker blogger Jay Newnum is stepping away from poker after receiving probation for stealing from a dealer’s tip container (Image: betraisefoldmovie.com)
When you are a poker blogger/reporter hired to cover a good-sized competition at a major land casino, probably making a proceed the dealer’s tip box just isn’t your decision that is best ever. Apparently, not everyone grasps that reality, and today from the ‘what were you thinking’ files comes news that 41-year-old probably-not-anymore poker writer Jay Newnum has received probation for stealing almost $700 while covering a Foxwoods casino poker tourney on December 16 of last 12 months.
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The Fishers, Indiana blogger evidently returned the stolen funds taken from the end box reportedly snatched up using chopsticks, a visual we find pretty amusing within a Mega Stack Challenge $600 No-Limit Texas Hold’em tournament held at the Mashantucket that is popular casino.
Newnum is allowed to participate in something called ‘accelerated rehabilitation,’ a state court system that may wipe his record clean if he makes it through the probation duration without using chopsticks on anything but chow mein and moo goo gai pan. Newnum dodged a bullet using this 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.
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