The FBI is investing after a four-time World Series of Poker Circuit winner and recent Mid-Stakes Poker Tour champion was found zip-tied and injured on the side of a road more than a month after his family reported him missing. <\/p>\n
George Janssen, the current MSPT Venetian champ, told police he was kidnapped by two or three men who held him captive in a basement in a house somewhere in Toledo for 35 days before dumping him on a rural road near his home of Bad Axe, Mich. <\/p>\n
According to Michigans ABC News 12, Janssen was found bound by zip ties and his face bloodied on Dec. 16. He told police the men had extorted him. <\/p>\n
Janssens family reported the Michigan online poker pro was missing on Nov. 13, two months after he won the MSPTs $1,600 main event at the Venetian for $82,823. His four WSOP Circuit rings all came online most recently in May playing as georgejanssen in Michigan. <\/p>\n
He also won $79,861 for finishing third in MSPTs main event at JACKS casino in Cleveland in September. <\/p>\n
According to ABC 12, Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson told the station that Janssen claims he was dropped after he took the kidnappers to a place where he hid some of his money. <\/p>\n
From what we gathered, he was being brought up here to recover some money that was hidden to give to these two assailants, Hanson told ABC 12 <\/p>\n
A family member said Janssen told them hes been the target of extortion for the past two years. <\/p>\n
All reports from the sheriffs department, the Bad Axe Police, and the Monroe County Sheriffs Department have been turned over to the FBI. <\/p>\n
The FBI will not confirm or deny any investigation that it is working on. <\/p>\n
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