After successful a World Poker Tour title in March, Dutch poker participant Rutger Hennen will now be heading to jail for six months. The incarceration comes after he was convicted of driving his Porsche at a excessive price of velocity by an intersection in 2019, hanging a 15-year-old lady on a bicycle and killing her immediately.
Hennen appealed the case, however Dutch courts finally settled on a six-month sentence and he was additionally barred from driving for 2 years. Prosecutors imagine he had been utilizing his mobile phone on the time of the crime.
Poker Career On Hold
An entrepreneur and poker participant, Hennen ran an organization that offered chairs and recliners for the aged. The firm flourished and a personal acuity firm acquired the firm in 2023, shifting Hennen’s web price to €50 million, in keeping with PokerInformation.
Hennen was additionally profitable on the poker desk, racking up lifetime reside event winnings of $321,406 in a profession courting again to 2011.
The greatest chunk of that got here in March when Hennen gained the €1,100 WPT Prime Amsterdam essential occasion, topping a discipline of greater than 1,300 entries for $228,354. Hennen appeared to play proper up till it was time to report back to jail, ending thirty first within the €5,300 EPT Monte Carlo essential occasion in April for $24,703.
