Connecticut Poker Player Guy Smith Receives 14 Months for Tax Evasion
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A Connecticut poker player will be sitting on the sidelines for awhile after being sentenced to 14 months in prison in a tax-invasion case involving over $2 million in unreported income, nearly half of which came from his part-time professional poker career.
Veteran East Coast poker player Guy Smith will head to prison for 14 months in late June after being sentenced in a tax-evasion case that included more than a million dollars in poker and sports winnings. (Image: FoxwoodsPoker.com)
US District Judge Michael P. Shea sentenced Guy Smith on Friday in a Hartford federal court following the conclusion of a four-month case with no actual trial or discovery process. On the same day prosecutors filed charges for unpaid taxes from 2012 to 2016, Smith reached a deal.