I’m just glad my prayer circle is still batting 100%. We had been praying for him every day. Unlike the fake Christians who just spray random prayers all over the place like some Compton n---- with a fully automatic weapon, we target one poor soul. God doesn’t like to be bogged down with the beggars. Just a simple “god please save this mid stakes trash and vomit him back across the Michigan border, amen.”
I keep reading the title as 'obscure Magician poker pro' and im always a bit disappointed when i see its 'Michigan'.
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Update:
Pokernews did some serious work, getting the missing persons report via a public records request: https://www.pokernews.com/news/2024/...heme-45186.htm
The guy is so full of shit, it hurts.
Look at this letter sent by George to a family member in mid-December:
Spells out "KIDNAP"! Clever, huh?
Why did the kidnappers allow him to write letters to people? That hasn't been explained, of course.
Oh, and he claims he was extorted for $2 million over 2 years, where he was told to leave cash at various drop points. But get this... the original person making this demand of him was a masked guy "with a Mexican accent" who was sitting in the passenger seat of George's vehicle, waiting for him to get in!
The letter... the bad guy hiding in the car... the $50 bills strewn about the floor... all of these are plot points out of a really bad kindapping story on a TV crime drama or B movie.
Oh, and George just happened to be in debt for millions, in relation to his former auto business. But I'm sure that's just a coincidence.
The FBI is now officially going after him for fraud and he was arrested yesterday
https://www.the-independent.com/news...-b2706193.htmlA four-time World Series of Poker circuit champion who claimed last year to have been kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and held hostage for 33 days in an Ohio basement as part of a seven-figure extortion scheme has now been accused of fraud.
That’s according to a newly unsealed federal complaint reviewed by The Independent, which says 42-year-old George Paul Janssen, Jr., scammed at least 20 banks out of more than $3.2 million before he vanished, using bogus loan paperwork to obtain the funds.
Janssen, a Michigan car dealer with more than $440,000 in pro poker winnings, went missing in November 2023 – two weeks after state authorities revoked his sales license for falsifying business documents – then reappeared a little over a month later, hands zip-tied and face bloodied, along the side of a rural road in his hometown of Bad Axe.
At the time, Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson said investigators were unable to substantiate whether or not Janssen’s account of having been abducted was legit, saying only that there were “a lot of things that need to be looked into.”
Janssen, who was arrested on Wednesday, does not have an attorney listed in court records, and was unable to be reached for comment on Thursday.
His son was also in on it looks like
https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/...aint-48043.htmGeorge's son, Connor Janssen, is mentioned in the complaint and said to have been a salesperson at Bay Auto who was also responsible for depositing checks into the business accounts.
The complaint alleges that Connor "knew his father was taking false loans and moving money with checks from bank to bank" and took out loans on his father's behalf.
"Connor told Agents he thought the vehicles were real when he took out the loans, but remarked he never saw the vehicles, nor any paperwork," the complaint states. "Connor also told Agents he thought his father was making the loan documents in Microsoft Word."
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"Donk down, that’s what you say to someone after they have lost 28K straight?" - Phil Hellmuth, online
Fucked up that he got his son wrapped up in all of this.
Not sure how old he is, but given that George is only 42, I can't imagine that son Connor is much past 21, if that.
It's one thing to be a bank fraudster yourself and risk the consequences. It's another to wrap your young adult son in the whole scheme as an accomplice, and fuck him over once your reckless behavior catches up with you.
I assume that the entire "kidnap" and "extortion" bullshit was his way of explaining why he defrauded the banks. He knew he was dead to rights on it, and felt that maybe the cops/courts would have sympathy for him if he felt like he had to commit this fraud in order to keep dangerous criminals from killing him.
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