Poker-Playing Pirate Allegedly Stabbed Man, Solicited and Ran Over Woman

Scotter Clark, a poker participant who typically wearing full pirate costume on the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), was arrested Monday in Oklahoma for allegedly soliciting a lady and stabbing a person who confronted him.

Clark was booked within the Tulsa Municipal Jail and charged with two felony counts of assault with a harmful weapon. The incident is not the primary time he is run into some authorized bother.

Accusations Towards Poker Participant

Clark, who claimed to have been banned from Caesars properties in the course of the 2022 WSOP, allegedly tried to solicit an unidentified lady for intercourse in Tulsa. She is alleged to have declined his proposition, and an unnamed male who accompanied her confronted the poker professional.

Police say Clark then stabbed the person within the head and chest earlier than leaving the scene in his blue pickup truck. Clark then, in keeping with investigators, backed his truck into the feminine sufferer. Each victims have been handled at a neighborhood hospital and are anticipated to outlive their accidents.

An individual who witnessed the incident known as 911 and offered police with the suspect’s license plate quantity. Clark, an Iowa native, was taken into custody late Monday evening. He claimed he was concerned in an altercation after somebody broke into his truck.

Clark has over $500,000 in dwell event cashes, and often performed in WSOP, World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC), and RunGood Poker Sequence (RGPS) occasions. He was well-known on the mid-stakes event circuit. However he additionally has a prison previous, which features a 2000 conviction for promoting cocaine, which resulted in a 180-month federal jail sentence.