Dont let Gambling/Poker bring you down this far.....

Accused poker player enters not guilty plea in parent’s death

Investigators have begun to portray Scherer as a Las Vegas gambler who is deep in debt and was hoping to inherit more than $1.25Million. police believe that Scherer turned off his cell phone and drove from Las Vegas to his parent’s home in the Castlewood Country Club area, killed them and then drove back to his own home in Orange County.

http://www.pokernewstoday.com/fullnews/3478/

Wow, it looks like the case in his defense isn't good at all. They have video evidence of him being in his parents neighborhood for over 4 hours the night of the murders. And his dad even tried to get him 600,000 for a "home loan" debt.

What a mindless jerk.

wow, that is a scary situation and hope all poker players are very careful, I think getting in to sports betting is much more dangerous and could lead to something like that alot more quickly.
sounds horrible.

Does this really belong in General Poker?I don't think sports betting has anything whatsoever to do with this, nor does poker. Somebody being able to kill their own parents implies to me either that they were abused during their childhood, or have some sort of mental problem.

Violent movies, video games, and metal music obv

They would convince you to kill your own parents?

Get out much?

He was joking obv.

obv.

Marilyn Manson must be responsible!

and of course they have to say poker player, not just gambler. Trying to make us all out to be degenerates,

Why wouldnt it be in general poker? This, and several other news articles say that his poker playing and gambling pushed him severely into debt and made him so desperate that he killed his parents for the Million+ in inheritance.

A professional gambler charged with murdering his parents last year in their Pleasanton country club home hoped to reap an early inheritance to pay off mounting gaming and other debts, authorities say

Scherer Jr.'s love of poker was shared by his son, who quit his job in the mortgage business in 2002 to become a professional poker player

The elder Scherer told his own father that Scherer III appeared to be a compulsive gambler

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BADM163UON.DTL

Clearly there is something wrong with them, but don't necessarily assume that. Being in huge debt can lead people to do some crazy things, even if they are otherwise sane.

I have heard:

Money (or the lack or owing of it) Alone can make you Insane

wow that guy must be terrible at playing poker! lol jk...or am I??? lol

That is insane that you could even think of killing your parents for an inheritance!! I'd say that guy is screwed!!

So sick, I mean this should have nothing to do with poker. This guy is obviously just a mental nut job like the asshole I ran into. Poker/Gambling should have never been mentioned in the news.

If the news is going to stick their nose into someones life like that. Divert from the obvious. Sure his gambling debt most likely was the reason for the murders. But, if you want to tell the whole world "So and so is a poker player" you should also go beyond that.

"He walks his dog through the neighborhood at 8am every morning"
"He likes to play with himself when he's alone"

--------- it just disgusts me that the media now adds on to the "degenerate" title with one idiots monetary and psychological mess

Because it's not about playing poker - it's about someone killing their parents. Players' Lounge seems more appropriate to me.

omg what a sick idiot...he must be mental / insane what ever you wanna call him to do something like this..dont think its right to say that its because of poker playin ,if he was smart he shouldnt put him self in debt situacion in the first place...not to mention to kill he's parrents...what a psycho

damn...

Crazed nutjob. Shoulda tried to rob a bank or something... then at least he'd still have his rich parents to bail him out.

lol