Lawyers agree to freeze $6 million World Series of Poker prize

Tuesday - September 05, 2006
LAS VEGAS Lawyers for World Series of Poker winner Jamie Gold and a Los Angeles-based TV development executive have agreed to a court injunction freezing half of the top prize.

U-S District Court Judge Roger L. Hunt was expected to sign the order soon.

Gold is being sued by Bruce Crispin Leyser.

Leyser claims he and Gold reached an agreement to split Gold's winnings if Leyser helped him find celebrity players to wear the "Bodog" poker site brand during the tournament.

Leyser says he kept his end of the deal, but Gold didn't.

Gold beat more than 87-hundred players to win the world's largest poker tournament last month and its 12 (M) million dollar top prize.

The injunction would freeze six (M) million dollars of that at the tournament host casino, the Rio.

Leyser lawyer Richard Schonfeld says Gold's lawyers will have until September 15th to challenge the injunction.