Jordan Cristos, charged with a number of crimes in June, was sentenced on Wednesday in a Las Vegas courtroom for threatening a choose and World Poker Tour (WPT) CEO Adam Pliska.
The poker professional with over $3.6 million in reside match cashes, The Hendon Mob’s database exhibits, has been locked up within the Clark County Detention Heart for 5 months. He solely cashed in a single World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) occasion this summer season, an internet occasion on June 8.
Poker Professional’s Self-Inflicted Authorized Troubles
Cristos, who received the WPT Legends of Poker at The Bicycle On line casino in 2013, discovered himself charged in June with a number of offenses associated to stalking, threatening, and home violence. He was sentenced on Sept. 18 for the home violence cost and spent a month in jail for that offense.
The conclusion of that sentence was removed from the tip of his authorized troubles. He nonetheless needed to cope with the stalking and threatening parts of his alleged crimes, one for threatening Household Courtroom choose Regina McConnell and one other for threatening Pliska. These crimes to which he pleaded responsible got here with a 14 to 48-month sentence imposed by District Choose Monica Trujillo.
“I’m extraordinarily involved by your prior historical past, by your repetitive conduct,” Trujillo informed the poker professional throughout Thursday’s sentencing, the Las Vegas Evaluation-Journal studies. “I do perceive rehabilitation. Nevertheless, it’s clear to the courtroom that even whenever you had assist and also you had the required counseling, that for some purpose … if one thing doesn’t go your manner, that you just proceed to harass individuals and also you proceed to even violate a number of occasions prior orders.”
The 38-year-old poker participant from California did not absolutely admit to his crime as he did not enter an ordinary plea. He as an alternative entered an Alford plea, a sort of responsible plea the place the defendant maintains their innocence however acknowledges the prosecution has sufficient proof to convict.
Cristos, who received a U.S. Poker Open occasion in 2019, is alleged to have made threats in opposition to Pliska and McConnell, who had been overseeing a baby custody case involving Cristos.
Prosecutors, as per the plea deal, agreed to dismiss a separate stalking case in opposition to Cristos, who has additionally been charged with stalking Leon Wheeler, Director of Poker Operations at Resorts World in Las Vegas.
Cristos, regardless of being an completed poker professional, has been recognized throughout the poker group for his erratic conduct on social media. He typically verbally assaults and insults others in poker, though it seems his X account has been deactivated.
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