Here is all you need to know about Rob Mercer and his net worth, a poker player, who acknowledges lying about having terminal cancer to get funds
An amateur poker player who claimed to have terminal cancer and took thousands of dollars in donations to enter a World Series of Poker tournament in Las Vegas has since admitted that everything he stated was a hoax.
Who is Rob Mercer poker player who faked having terminal cancer to play in World Series, bio, age, net worth
Poker player Rob Mercer lied about having terminal cancer to raise $30,000 to enter World Series of Poker tournament. pic.twitter.com/Z3VQVgQk70
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According to a Wednesday article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rob Mercer admitted to fabricating a stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis for his GoFundMe website in June. He told the paper:
I did lie about having colon cancer. I don’t have colon cancer. I used that to cover my situation.”
He further continued by saying that whatever he did was wrong, admitting his mistake:
“I shouldn’t have told people I have colon cancer. I did that just as a spur-of-the-moment thing when someone asked me what kind of cancer I had.”
The $10,000 buy-in for the No-limit Hold’em World Championship was something that Mercer, of Vallejo, California, was working to meet. He received donations totaling between $30,000 and $50,000, which also included a stay in a suite at the Bellagio. Even a fellow Arizonan athlete who struggles with a serious chronic illness gave $2,500. Cody Daniels stated via a tweet:
Well I learned a $2,500 lesson. Sadly, my kindness was taken for weakness once again. Just a shame. That’s all I can say. Hopefully gofundme peeps get their money back. Just sad sad sad.”
Mercer told the Review-Journal that he does not intend to return the funds since he believes he may have undiagnosed breast cancer and because the donations were made after he claimed to be ill. He said he had to lie about the situation as he was embarrassed to tell people he had breast cancer.
A few hours into the tournament, Mercer lost, and ever since the lies were exposed, he has virtually been exiled from the poker world, as per the New York Post.
Who is Rob Mercer?
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Rob Mercer is a 37-year-old poker player from Vallejo, California who created the fictitious story in June to raise the $10,000 needed to enter the famed poker tournament hosted in Las Vegas in July.
Mercer received donations worth an estimated $30,000 to $50,000 including a suite at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in July but his current net worth isn’t known.