Van der Sloot Killed Girl While Playing Online Poker

Joran van der Sloot continues to talk regarding the brutal murder of Peruvian college student Stephany Flores.  Now he claims the murder in his hotel room occurred while the two were playing online poker. 

The two were playing online poker on his laptop, said van der Sloot, when an insulting message arrived on the screen mentioning the Natalee Holloway case.

Van der Sloot is the primary suspect in Holloway's 2005 disappearance on the island of Aruba. 

He was attending the Latin American Poker Tour in Lima, Peru when he met Flores, a fellow poker player. 

CBS News published excerpts of the confession Monday (from a transcript):

Joran van der Sloot slammed Stephany Flores in the face with his right elbow, strangled the 21-year-old Lima woman for a full minute, then took off his shirt and suffocated her with it, according to transcripts of his signed confession released by Peruvian authorities.

According to the transcripts, van der Sloot expressed concern over there being "blood everywhere" including his own shirt.

"There was blood everywhere," the Dutch national said.

Van der Sloot is known to have played on a number of online poker sites, but has reportedly never won any major off-line tournaments. 

In at least two online poker rooms, including UB.com, van der Sloot played using the handle "AngryShark68".

A 'shark' as it applies to the game of poker is a very good poker player, one who usually wins. At the poker table, a shark looks for the fishes at the table and eats their chips up.  There is a bit of irony in that van der Sloot was detained by Chilean police on while traveling in a taxi, about halfway to the coast on Route 68, a number appearing in two of Joran's online poker handles.

Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com