Atlantic City casino sues gamblers, blames unshuffled cards

[marmar]

A New Jersey casino has sued a group of gamblers who won $1.5 million after they allegedly realized the eight decks of cards used in a game of mini baccarat were not preshuffled.

The Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, N.J., filed suit against the gamblers and playing card company Gemaco after 14 players collectively won $1,536,700 in 41 winning hands.

As the same sequence of cards kept appearing April 30, the players increased their bets from $10 to $5,000, the casino alleged.

"The gamblers unlawfully took advantage of the Golden Nugget when they caught onto the pattern and ... by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits," the casino said in a statement. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/jersey-casino-suing-gamblers-won-1-5-million-172227267--abc-news-topstories.html

[piratefish08]

1. every single casino game favors the casino. intelligent players fucked em. good.

[MrSlayer]

2. Fuck you Golden Nugget.

Tough shit. Buyer beware. Blah, blah, blah. When a system that is set up to rob people accidentally favors the pigeons, thems the breaks of the game. Eat it.

[hobbit709]

3. Considering that every table is monitored by multiple cameras constantly.

If it took them $1.5 mill to catch on doesn't say much for their own security.
They lost money instead of making money this time. Tough.

[DrDan]

4. the casino screws up and sues the winners?????

[Dkc05]

5. sounds like Romney way.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

7. would they give the money back to gamblers

in the event that they got drunk at the tables and lost big? i mean, the casinos usually serve free drinks...wouldn't that be 'taking advantage'???

sP

[darkangel218]

8. They are so not gonna win this case.

It's not the players fault that the decks weren't shuffled, thats the casinos responsability. The players could argue they just thought they were really lucky and that's why they increased the bets. Fuck the casinos, they won't go bankrupt for a mil. and half.

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Seems to me they should be suing the playing card company

No evidence of a scheme was found. On May 1, the Golden Nugget said it learned by "direct admission" from Gemaco's CEO that the decks used in the baccarat game were unshuffled, despite being touted as preshuffled, certified decks.

Looks like they're going after the people least likely to be able to afford a good lawyer.

[jorno67]

10. I say they should let this lawsuit go forward...

right after the Golden Nugget refunds all the money they received from taking advantage of gamblers over the years.