The 11-time World Series of Poker gold ring winner, Maurice Hawkins, has told CalvinAyre.com of his delight at being proved innocent after a series of slanderous accusations threw his reputation into disrepute.

Reputation is everything, especially in poker, and the 11-time World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) gold ring winner, Maurice Hawkins, is beginning to paste over the cracks of his after winning a vital lawsuit recently.

In July 2017, Jim Rosica of FloridaPolitics.com covered a story relating to an interview with Tallahassee attorney, Hal Lewis, that contained allegations that Hawkins had swindled the lawyer out of $22,788.

According to the Rosica report, Lewis had been Hawkins’ backer and was suing him over the misappropriated sum claiming that a series of text messages received from Hawkins proved that he lost the money gambling after busting from a tournament left him with a “feeling of despair.”