Gambling911 World Exclusive! Japanese Poker Pro Hung Out With Suspect Before CEO's Murder
Published on:
Dec/10/2024
The man accused of killing a top health care executive has ties to the world of professional poker, Gambling 911 can reveal in a world exclusive report!
Luigi Mangione was arrested Monday in Altoona, Pa., in connection with the assassination last week in New York of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Mangione, 26, stalked Thompson, 50, and then shot and killed him outside a Manhattan hotel on December 4, reportedly over a beef with the health care industry.
Shortly after the arrest, one of Japan’s top professional poker players, Jun Obara, posted on social media that he had met and hung out with Mangione earlier this year at an eatery in Japan.
According to Obara, Mangione was a tourist visiting Japan last February when they met by chance at a Tokyo restaurant.
After hitting it off, Obara bought Mangione a meal and some drinks as a goodwill gesture, and the pair hung out together for about a half hour.
Obara had a photograph taken with Mangione and posted the photo on social media.
Obara tweeted yesterday about the encounter: “I have been informed that the person in my previous post may be the suspect in the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare. I live in Japan and was having a fun meal with a friend at a restaurant in Tokyo that day. He came in by himself, and we talked to him and treated him to a meal and drinks because we wanted him to enjoy Japan. He said he was on vacation from Hawaii and we ate together for about 30 minutes before parting ways.”
Obara is one of Japan’s most successful professional poker players.
According to an Internet database that tracks poker pros’ winnings, Obara is the ninth most successful Japanese poker pro in history, earning approximately $1.8 million in poker tournament winnings.
He competed in the recent World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, cashing in three events.
For some reason, high-profile shootings in the United States often have a connection to gambling.
In 2007, a Korean student named Seung-Hui Choi shot and killed 37 people at Virginia Tech University.
Afterwards, Gambling 911 revealed in an exclusive report that shortly before the shooting, the killer, who was obsessed with video poker, had written, for a class assignment, a play about video poker.
I have been informed that the person in my previous post may be the suspect in the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare.
— Obara jun/小原順/みさわ (@128i256) December 9, 2024
I live in Japan and was having a fun meal with a friend at a restaurant in Tokyo that day. He came in by himself, and we talked to him and treated him to a…
In 2009, a man named James Wenneker von Brunn shot and killed a security guard at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
Afterwards, Gambling 911 revealed in an exclusive report that the man operated a white supremacist website and one of the advertisers on that website was a popular online casino.
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