It has been 3 months since Ethan Nguyen was stabbed to death in his Plano, Texas home. Up until this point there had been no news stories on this death as the police were keeping it under tight wraps as they investigated. They have now charged fellow poker player and close friend Peter Phuc Hong Tran in the murder.

Both Ethan Nguyen and Peter Tran were 2/5 regulars at local casinos. They were very close and even travelled/stayed together on trips to other casinos. My understanding is that they were planning to travel to Riverwind Casino the following weekend due to a monthly splash pot promotion going on up there.

From my perspective, Ethan was a professional poker player (semi-pro who was also a hair stylist) and Peter was an aspiring pro who was being mentored by Ethan (I was under the assumption that Peter did not have another job, but that could be incorrect). Ethan was pretty flamboyant with his money and was known to carry $10k-15k on his person. Apparently Peter had borrowed money from many players including Ethan. Based on the news article, it appears the police believe that Peter killed Ethan for money to fuel his gambling addiction. Neither the murder weapon nor the $10k stolen has been found.

I hope this story serves as a reminder to all about the risks that even today still exist in this business. Caution should be heeded even with those you trust.

Dallas Morning News Article: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/commu...n-stabbing.ece

Damn, talk about a "friend"

My condolences to both players families. Sad to say that gambling fuels such things, but it does.

This is tragic, but I'd like to point out we only have the suspect's word that he's a gambling addict. Could it be he's thinking a few moves ahead and believes calling himself an addict will alter the outcome than if he's saying he's a simple robber?

only a gambling addict would think like that

More good publicity!

What are the odds that he gets away with murder...like O.J. did?

I know 10k is a good chunk of change but it's definitely not life changing enough to kill someone over. Scary.

It's certainly life changing for the guy that died

Could be someone else. Dispose of one body instead of two. Effect: Cops looking for missing body as the suspect. Changes an investigation significantly.

Are you really that ignorant? Or you just didn't read the story?

Epic first post, Peter Tran

Wow that's pretty sad. Money comes and goes... it's just money. Not a sign of your selfworth.

So let me get this straight, they want us to think that the butler did it, blamed it on the maid, and the cops are really keeping this quiet because they know lee Harvey Oswald is the true culprit, but they dont want to take him out of witness protection because he might still implicate LBJ, so they blamed it on a poker player to distract attention from the high price of gas, right?

My only other question is... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

LOL. I skipped right past the link to the story.

amazing what money will do to people