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 pace by means of an intersection in 2019, placing 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 consider he had been utilizing his cellphone on the time of the crime.
Poker Profession On Maintain
An entrepreneur and poker participant, Hennen ran an organization that bought chairs and recliners for the aged. The corporate flourished and a personal acuity firm acquired the agency in 2023, shifting Hennen’s web value to €50 million, in accordance with PokerNews.
Hennen was additionally profitable on the poker desk, racking up lifetime dwell match winnings of $321,406 in a profession courting again to 2011.
The most important chunk of that got here in March when Hennen gained the €1,100 WPT Prime Amsterdam primary 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 primary occasion in April for $24,703.
