Poker king fights off attackers

[underpants]

http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/12/29/88657.php?sps=rgj.com&sch=LocalNews&sp1=rgj&sp2=News&sp3=Local+News&sp5=RGJ.com&sp6=news&sp7=local_news

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Greg Raymer, the 2004 World Series of Poker champion, apparently knows how to wield more than a stack of chips when everything is riding on it.

The soft-spoken patent attorney from Stonington, Conn., fought off a pair of attackers Dec. 20 at the Bellagio hotel-casino after he had finished playing a cash game of poker, according to a Las Vegas police report.

Raymer, 40, was returning to his room about 2 a.m. when two men jumped him, Raymer said in an interview. Raymer said the men then tried to push him in the room.

Raymer, known as the “Fossilman” in poker circles, won the WSOP Texas Hold’Em title and $5 million in cash. He beat out a field of 2,576 in May to win the prestigious event.

[4morewars]

1. What are the odds of that happening ? n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

2. In The Casino?!?!?

Geez, i thought every square foot of those joints was under camera surveillance. And, since he's a big timer now, he doesn't get an escort back to his room when he's in Vegas?
The Professor

[underpants]

3. You'd think that wouldn't you?

A heard this on Paul Harvey on the way to work. Old Paul made it sound like they tried to take the $5 Million.....apparently Paul got that wrong too.

[Wonk]

4. They had a gun, but he didn't, and he fought them off? That's un-possible!

(according to some of our resident DU gun-fetishists, anyways)