LONGUEUIL, QUE.—Never a dull moment in the life of a world poker champ.

Picture Jonathan Duhamel, who won nearly $9 million in the World Series of Poker in 2010, making out with his then-girlfriend, Bianca Rojas-Latraverse, and another woman in his bedroom, a ménage à trois in the making.

Then picture him, some months later, severely beaten, tied up, and robbed in a plan allegedly hatched by Rojas-Latraverse.

On Dec. 21, Duhamel, 24, was the victim of a brutal home invasion at his condo in Boucherville, a suburb on the south shore of Montreal. His two male assailants beat him twice, he told police — in addition, he later recounted, they threatened his family and said they’d cut off his fingers.

From his safe they took $40,000 in Canadian $100 dollar bills and 74,000 in euros. They also took a $10,000 gold Rolex watch and a poker championship bracelet valued at $40,000.

But police quickly found leads, thanks to a tip from a woman who called police — the same woman in the kissing threesome who cannot be named by court order.

Investigators say that woman told them she received text messages from Rojas-Latraverse, 20, in the weeks leading up to the robbery, announcing the attack would take place.

“I’m scared,” Rojas-Latraverse allegedly wrote to the woman, her friend. “Tomorrow I have something big that could cost me my life.”

The details were revealed by Longueuil police Det. Jean François Lapolice at the bail hearing for Rojas-Latraverse, who faces five charges including conspiracy, armed robbery, breaking and entering, forced confinement and assault. Her alleged accomplices, John Steven Clark-Lemay, 22, and Anthony Bourque, 20, face the same charges.

Rojas-Latraverse’s defence counsel on Thursday asked Lapolice if there was a history of conflict between the woman and his client. The officer said the two women indeed argued while Duhamel and Rojas-Latraverse had still been dating in the summer.

The officer then told the story of the threesome.

The woman arrived at Duhamel’s place, where the poker icon was watching sports on TV, according to the officer. The three then went up to his bedroom where they started kissing. Duhamel’s girlfriend then got angry and the two women started arguing.

As he recounted these details, Rojas-Latraverse, a petite woman with dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, wore a small grin on her face, one of several moments she smiled during the hearing.

Despite the intimate encounter, the female informant’s opinion of Rojas-Latraverse was not very high, Lapolice said. On Dec. 23, she went to police about the latter’s text messages regarding the alleged plan to attack Duhamel.

She told investigators that Rojas-Latraverse mentioned three weeks prior that she wanted to rob Duhamel because he kept a lot of cash at his place. By then the couple had been broken up for months. But no one believed the former girlfriend was serious because she was considered to be someone who “lies all the time.”

Rojas-Latraverse allegedly continued her texts: “Tomorrow, at 10 o’clock, think of me,” she wrote. “My future is in play tomorrow and my plan will go ahead. . . ”

“I’m driving, that’s it,” she continued.

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The friend tried to dissuade her from her alleged plans. “If you drive, you are complicit, it’s the same sentence,” the friend wrote back.

Police say that when they arrested Rojas-Latraverse on Dec. 24, she implicated her two co-accused. Thanks to an anonymous tip, they found Clark-Lemay partying at the Holiday Inn in Pointe Claire. His cousin, who is charged separately, was allegedly wearing the Rolex.

Lapolice said that through search warrants, officers found stained jeans, which are currently being analyzed, in Clark-Lemay’s place. They also found a cord, surgical gloves, handcuffs and a lug wrench in a bag at Bourque’s place, he added.

Rojas-Latraverse’s family life has been barely existent, the court heard. Her parents separated 17 years ago, and she had been living with her mother until that turned sour.

She had been playing poker in casinos to make money to live, she said.

Her father Ricardo Rojas, under questioning by the prosecution, seemed to know almost nothing about his daughter’s life. He promised, nevertheless, to take her in were she to be released on bail.

Those who knew her told reporters that the young woman was prone to manipulation and fabrication. One former friend told La Presse that she even tried to pass herself off as a medical student at the University of Montreal, going so far as to buy textbooks and go to classes.

In media interviews on Dec. 30, Duhamel, his right eye still swollen and bruised from the attack, said their relationship lasted about four months. He claimed she hid a lot about herself from him.

After they broke up, she text messaged him while he was in Europe to say she was pregnant. “It was a well-concocted lie,” he told TVA. “She is pretty special . . . Many in my entourage had doubts about her. It took me time to realize it, I believe.”

Duhamel, who put out a $10,000 reward for information following the attack, described being hit and kicked, including in the head. “It was very, very violent,” he said.

Duhamel was not at the hearing Thursday. He’s in the Caribbean — playing poker.