An arrest warrant for Ted Forrest was issued last Friday by authorities. Forrest, 51, a six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner with more than $6.3 million in live tournament earnings, has been charged with theft and bad check charges.
According to the Las Vegas Review journal, Forrest attempted to pass two checks amounting to $215,000 between October 28, 2012, and May 17, 2013, at Wynn La[...] Read more » Six-time WSOP Bracelet Winner Wanted By U.S. Authorities
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ted has to feel sorry for himself for only being forrest but not turner therefore resulting in a situation where he has to write fraudulent checks left and right and in between. hopefully one day forrest will grow top such heights that fraudulent checks will come only from the left, resulting in complete elimination of fraudulent checks from the right and in between.
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When you see that the guy had won six bracelets and 6.3 million in WSOP tournaments you probably think that the guy is a very rich man.
However you don't know anything about him and he is maybe loosing all is money playing cash games or any other casino games and become a poor guy who have to write check for which he knows that he does not have the funds to cover them.
It is very strange how we cam judge a person with only a bit of information on him.
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Nothing special I admire this guy because his desire to make a combination when he have nothing or 0$ cash Anyway in my country this thing cant happened because check here in Serbia are limited to max 5000RSD or 40E per check so we dont have that kind of problems
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I was surprised and saddened to read about this. Ted Forrest was always on the screen playing poker for vast amounts of money not so long ago and to see this was shocking
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As they say, easy come easy go! Winning $6 million means nothing if you can't hang on to it. It would appear there is a situation here for which we only have part of the story, but nonetheless it appears very sad that such a profit maker is embroiled in a theft / bad check issue. Remember...look after your money and only bet what you can afford to lose.
very strange such a respected man and was in such a bad story ... of course occur in life and more strange things ... in general are to blame for their prolemy so you have to sit in jail
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It reminded me the "run forrest run" from the movie. This is a bright example to what happens with some "lucky" poker players after some time. Not all of them are successful at the end. For some the wheel turns and as they are addicted to it, it can result to this.
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Ted Forrest won the 2006 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, winning the $500,000 first prize. That was a great tournament. It is hard to believe that ten years have passed since then. More than $6.3 million in live tournament earnings. That sounds like a lot of money. He has earned around $200,000 (before tax) a year on average for the past 30 years or so.
Edited by Tony_MON7ANA (08 September 2016 @ 16:28 GMT)
