Apparently four employees were stealing from the dealer tournament tips and pocketed fake high hand payouts.
I’d sure like to know who these four people were and if they worked in any other local cardrooms previously.
I entered several events in this year’s World Series of Poker. Unfortunately, no big cashes (or any cashes for that matter). At least I was in long enough for my wife to snap this most excellent of pics.
The WSOP “sold out” the final starting day of the world series of poker turning away over 500 players including several pro’s like Patrik Antonius and Ted Forest.
Check this out. The Excalibur who recently announced that they are getting rid of their electronic poker room is now apparently adding a new sexy twist to the game.
Well, that didn’t last long. Excalibur has called up their layed off dealers and offered them their jobs back. Apparently the tables may be moved to another casino, but no details are known yet. I gave them a try last year and found them to be no where near as satisfying as a real game.
First, news gets out about Tao beating up their VIP pro-poker playing guests and losing a lawsuit for 80k, and now they get raided by the Feds for unusual dealings in the Fry’s executive case.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jan/31/las-vegan-wins-grudge-suit-against-tao-security/
http://www.mercurynews.com/valley/ci_11611329?nclick_check=1
It’s official… I finally cashed in another poker tournament. After a long series of bubbles and downright bad luck, I finally cashed in yesterday’s Binion Poker Classic No Limit Tournament. Wasn’t for a lot of money, but nice to break through the wall. Now to take that through to the Series.
Today is the start of the summer tournament season. I’ll be heading out shortly to play in the first public tournament of this year’s Binions Poker Classic. The World Series of Poker starts tomorrow and then there are simultaneous tournaments over the next two months at Binions, Ceasars, Bellagio, Venitian and RIO followed by the Orleans Open to finish it all off in August. Hope you enjoyed seeing me around this spring because I’m about to be hard to track down.
Daniel wrote a really great blog post about the cool changes happening this year at the WSOP. Take a read here…
For some reason this one hits me pretty hard and I’ve never even met the guy. Maybe it was just that he looked about 36 instead of 56, or maybe it was just that he was so damn good at his poker passion… but I am really saddened to hear this news. I imagine that Jesus, Moses, Mohammad and Chip are all sitting down at a Stud table, and if they aren’t careful, Chip may soon end up bankrupting them all.
Exactly why we need legal and regulated online gaming here in the US.
