If you play poker in certain circles in this town, you’ve run into Robert Eon Marshall. And you probably dislike him. Word is that he got rich winning the lottery. He wears a huge ring that says “No Limit Hold ‘Em Champion” on it, just because, you know, he thought he was a champion. Or he used to wear a ring like that. Now Marshall is in jail, and he owes some folks $915,449. Our good friend Dan Michalski over on Pokerati tells us brings us the story. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
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