Paul Senat, Charged With Manslaughter, Wins $101,444 in WSOP Main Event

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Paul Senat, whose deep-run at this week’s WSOP Main Event resulted in a 70th place finish and a $101,444 payday, is facing a manslaughter charge in the gunshot death of a Florida man.

Senat, ‘a relative unknown’ according to WSOP officials, who prior to this year’s Main Event score had only one small cash to his name on Hendon Mob from back in 2011, is charged with the death of Darryl Rudolph, the father of Florida State University football standout Travis Rudolph, after firing an AK47 at the Sugar Daddy’s Adult Cabaret Club he is part-owner of in West Palm Beach, Florida.

(Photo: Palmbeachpost.com)

According to Senat, who has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter charge, he ‘took the AK 47-style gun from a shelf late April 21 and didn’t realize it had fired until he saw Rudolph… bleeding from the neck in the adjacent room’, according to the PalmBeachPost.

Reports state that: ‘The fatal shot went through a wall from an adjacent liquor-storage room and struck Rudolph in either the neck or the back as he changed a filter to an air-conditioning unit in an office. Rudolph was rushed to St. Mary’s Medical Center, authorities said, where he died the next afternoon.’

Senat, who claims he kept the gun in the club for his own protection, was released on a $35,000 surety bond a day after the deadly incident occurred and was in court June 16th for a case disposition, and according to court records he is scheduled to appear in court again on August 16th.

Records from Palm Beach County Jail records show Senat ‘was arrested six times between 1997 and 2007, all on misdemeanor or traffic charges’ according to local newspapers, while Palm Beach County Court records also show ‘three eviction filings, three foreclosures and one civil domestic violence case’.

At his bond hearing the judge ordered Senat to have ‘no contact with Rudolph’s family or with Sugar Daddy’s’, and he is also not allowed to have weapons, although it is not known whether travel restrictions were included in his release conditions.

His Main Event run in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week saw him eventually bust out when his turn bluff while short-stacked was called by Jonathan ‘Superman’ Dwek, Senat taking home $101,444 for his efforts.

His only previous tournament cash was for $2753 when he finished 26th in the $1,000 Christmas Classic at the Palm Beach Kennel Club in 2011.