Amateur poker player Rob Mercer accepted thousands of dollars in donations so he could play in the World Series of Poker tournament.
“I did lie about having colon cancer. I don’t have colon cancer. I used that to cover my situation,” Mercer told the outlet. “What I did was wrong. 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.”
Mercer, 37, set up a GoFundMe page in June to raise money to meet the US$10,000 buy-in for the No-limit Hold’em World Championship.The Review-Journal reports he received about US$30,000 to US$50,000 in donations, as well as a complementary stay at a suite in the Bellagio. He even received a US$2,500 donation from poker player Cody Daniels, who is chronically ill.
Well I learned a $2500 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.“I’m sorry for not being honest about what my situation was. If I would have done that from Day One, who knows what would have happened,” Mercer told the newspaper.
Mercer came clean about the lies after fellow poker players who had helped him raise money became suspicious about the status of his health and began looking into his claims.
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