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Raymond Davis, a 52-year-old poker pro with more than $1.6 million in tournament earnings known for establishing the 18,000-member strong poker group RealGrinders, currently sits in a Las Vegas jail facing nine charges stemming from accusations of sex crimes against children.

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Davis allegedly paid an underage girl, whom he met on Facebook, for oral sex at his home some years ago. Her friend also alleges Davis paid them to shower together for his amusement.

Davis is a poker pro and founder of one of the biggest existing poker groups RealGrinders. Raymond Davis has 127 cashes and $1,663,459 in live winnings. His biggest success was a 7th place finish for $173,445 at the 2007 $15,400 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

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  • Raymond Davis, a 52-year-old poker pro with more than $1.6 million in tournament earnings known for establishing the 18,000-member strong poker group RealGrinders, currently sits in a Las Vegas.
  • Prominent Las Vegas poker pro Raymond Davis has reached a plea deal with Nevada authorities to resolve sex-related charges that could have resulted in a lengthy prison stint.
  • Davis has long been on the poker tournament scene, with event cashes dating back to 2002. He was a fixture at Las Vegas and Southern California tournament series, and he sometimes traveled to play as well. For many years, Davis has lived in Vegas.

“I have never, never in my life, paid a girl, underage woman, girl for sex.'

In a jailhouse interview with 8NewsNow and Vanessa Murphy of their investigative “I-Team,” Davis categorically denied the charges.

In the video interview, which you can watch here, Davis admits to visiting massage parlors and picking up girls off Craigslist but denies any involvement with underage females.

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“I have never, never in my life, paid a girl, underage woman, girl for sex,” he said.

Why Wasn’t He Arrested Sooner?

The investigative new report also revealed that Davis wasn’t arrested by police for two and a half years. In fact, a warrant was issued in September 2016 and he wasn’t picked up until April of this year after a traffic stop.

“They never made an effort to come to my house,” said Davis, who operated a RealGrinders Lounge across the street from the Rio and is active on social media. “They never came to my store. I’m very high profile; anybody, a 10-year-old Boy Scout can find me.

'I got a big following. I’m on social media. My whereabouts is there. I got a custom red Camaro, my name on it, my business RG on it.”

The I-Team revealed that the Metro detective investigating the case never tried to personally apprehend Davis and that it was referred to The Criminal Apprehension Team a month later. Seven months after that, it was also added to a national crime database.

“If there was an arrest warrant, and I was a danger to the community, why wouldn’t they come and get me?”

“If they would have sent me a subpoena saying I had a warrant, I would have just went downtown or turned myself in, went to court, paid bail, whatever,” Davis said.

Originally booked back in April, Davis was released on a $25,000 bond. However, things got worse after he opted to represent himself in court and made allegations against the judge and prosecutors. Given his prior run-ins with the law and citing inappropriate behavior in the courtroom, Judge Jacqueline Bluth upped the bond to $500,000, which subsequently landed Davis back in jail.

“From day one, it has been total bias against me,” Davis said. “If there was an arrest warrant, and I was a danger to the community, why wouldn’t they come and get me?”

The I-Team inquired with Metro police as to why it took so long to make an arrest but weren’t given an answer given it’s “an ongoing criminal investigation.”

For now, Davis currently sits in jail awaiting his February trial date.

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Raymond Davis has taken a plea deal. And so comes to a close a year and a half of bizarre legal wrangling.

Davis is a founding member of RealGrinders and is a tournament pro with $1.6 million in live cashes.

In April 2019, he was picked up on traffic violations. However, when he was run through the system, it threw up several outstanding warrants. The charges, dating from September 2016, included nine counts of sex crimes against multiple children. Three of these charges were felony charges. The remaining six counts were gross misdemeanors.

He was represented by Craig Mueller — a public defender — given a bail of $25,000, and sent home with an ankle monitor.

Contempt and contemptibility

When he came back to the court, things took a number of other strange turns.

In the first place, Davis opted to defend himself. Not only is it ill-advised to try and take on the law without a lawyer. It is still less advisable to couch your defense in ad hominem attacks on the judge and prosecutor.

Which he proceeded to do.

Davis alleged wrongdoing against both Judge Jacqueline Bluth and prosecutor Stacey Kollins. Things kicked-off in the courtroom, and Davis found himself back in jail. This time his bail was bumped from $25,000 to $500,000.

Unable to get together that much cash, he had to settle into life in a cell for a few more months.

In December 2019, he got Craig Mueller back as counsel. Then almost immediately, Davis filed to have him removed. The court said no.

Davis filed to be released from jail because of the coronavirus. The court said no.

He tried to get Mueller disbarred. The court said no again, but this time let Mueller off and threw a new defender into the ring, Adam Gill.

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So naturally, Davis filed to defend himself. Getting the usual response from the court — an emphatic no.

A trying trial

After about a year and a half in jail, Davis finally got before a judge with a lawyer on hand to make his case for him.

The case was broadcast in a heavily redacted live stream, which can be viewed below.

Despite having a lawyer on hand, the case still makes for some wonky watching. Davis’s hostility to his own defense attorney is palpable through the screen. Judge Bluth makes it very clear that she will not be putting up with Davis going off the rails as with his previous appearances, though this doesn’t stop him from kicking up a fuss about the racial make-up of the jury.

Davis turned down multiple plea deals to get before a jury. Within a few hours, he changed his mind.

More witnesses come forward

During opening statements, the prosecution laid out the charges in more detail.

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The initial charges were brought by a girl, the primary victim, who was 13 at the time of the alleged crime in July 2014. She came from a low-income family. So she was was vulnerable to alleged offers of money from Davis. Allegedly she was sexually assaulted in return for this money.

The primary victim also alleged that he paid her to bring friends with her, one of who also leveled charges of sexual assault.

During the investigation, several more accusers came forward.

A homeless woman claimed she was offered financial assistance for sexual favors from herself and her 13-year-old companion. Two other accusers aged 14 and 15 claimed they were offered hotel rooms in exchange for sex. A pattern appeared to be forming.

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Having heard the prosecution’s opening statement, Davis folded. He didn’t need to see any further evidence and took the plea deal.

In exchange for his admission of guilt, he was given time served and the charges were dropped to contributing to the misdemeanor delinquency of a minor (the primary victim) and felony coercion of the primary victim’s friend.

Coda

Davis came out of court and immediately told the newspapers and Facebook that he was innocent.

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The whole thing was a stitch-up in his view. He also indicated that he would be suing at the very least: the judge, the sheriff, and two of the lawyers. All to the tune of around $10 million total.

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He intends to become an activist, for all those others who are “falsely” accused in the poker community. Someone should put him in touch with Mike Postle and Jeffery Morris.

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