US EditionPoker player who drew donations for Las Vegas event lied about dying from cancer
- Rob Mercer confesses to lying about having colon cancer and acknowledges that he used the cancer story as a cover-up. He apologizes for not being honest about his situation.
- Mercer received donations, estimated to be valued between $30,000 to $50,000, including a suite at Bellagio during the World Series of Poker . He confirms that he was contacted by GoFundMe for violating its terms of service.
- Despite the controversy, Mercer believes he has undiagnosed breast cancer and refuses to repay the donated money, as he asserts that the donations were made because he was sick.
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Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fundraising platform GoFundMe said Thursday it has refunded money to donors after a poker player admitted he lied when he said he had terminal cancer and accepted thousands of dollars in donations so he could play in a World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. GoFundMe says it has also banned Rob Mercer from the platform and removed the poker player’s fundraising campaign from its website. Mercer told t…
GoFundMe refunds donations to poker player who admits to lying about cancer for tournament buy-in
Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fundraising platform GoFundMe said Thursday it has refunded money to donors after a poker player admitted he lied when he said he had terminal cancer and accepted thousands of dollars in donations so he could play in a World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. GoFundMe says it has also banned Rob Mercer from the platform and removed the poker player’s fundraising campaign from its website. Mercer told t…
GoFundMe refunds donations to poker player who admits to lying about cancer for tournament buy-in
Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fundraising platform GoFundMe said Thursday it has refunded money to donors after a poker player admitted to lying about a terminal cancer diagnosis and accepted thousands of dollars in donations so he could play in a World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. GoFundMe said it has also banned Rob Mercer from the platform and removed the poker player’s fundraising campaign from its website. “GoFundMe has …
GoFundMe refunds donations to poker player who admits to lying about cancer for tournament buy-in
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The fundraising platform GoFundMe said Thursday it has refunded money to donors after a poker player admitted to lying about a terminal cancer diagnosis and accepted thousands of dollars in donations so he could play in a World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. GoFundMe said it has also banned Rob Mercer from the platform and removed the poker player’s fundraising campaign from its website. “GoFundMe has zero tolerance fo…
Amateur poker player admits to lying about having terminal cancer to raise $10,000 buy-in for poker tournament
A poker player crowdsourced tens of thousands of dollars on GoFundMe, having told sympathetic souls he was dying of stage 4 colon cancer and wanted to fulfill his dream of playing at the World Series of Poker's main event before shuffling off this mortal coil. It turns out, however, it was all a hoax. Rob Mercer of Vallejo, California, admitted to the Las Vegas Review-Journal Tuesday — which he had previously fooled — that he does not have…
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