If it's late at night and I have a young son & 150k in my house, there is no way in hell I'm opening the door.

It's perfectly fine to have some money at your house, but not 150k!

He said he looked out the peephole and no one was there so naturally he decided to open the door.

If he has no experience or training handling a gun, having it would likely be detrimental. Not having a gun probably saved his life. Unless you're prepared to shoot without hesitation and accurately, the chances of you getting shot in that situation are pretty high. I never answer my door for anyone unless I know they're coming and they call. If I ever got a knock especially at night my first action is to grab my M4 which is within arms reach where I sleep.

It is every mans god given right to keep an assault rifle in his house. Personally I sleep with a Kalachnikov under my pillow. It is somewhat uncomfortable but it is worth it.

lol.

Please do not let thread devolve into a gun control debate. Sorry to hear for this guy, ****ty situation. I think a lot can be said for just situational awareness too. When you win big, it never hurts to look behind you to make sure no one's following you. A lot of these robberies happen in the parking lot where someone follows you out of the casino or in your driveway when someone trails you home. It's really easy to forget about how dangerous a situation it is with thousands of dollars on you and basically no security in a place with desperate people, especially when you cash out thousands of times without incident, but I hear about this kind of stuff happening a lot.

Just to try to give u all some feedback here as much as I can.... I feel having a gun on hand would have made the situation much worse. And most likely fatal. My gun vs 2 guns? Your poker players and can do simple math I would hope, being a 2:1 dog or more min or a coin flip for my life is something I have no interest in gambling on ever. Kinda drawing dead there guys. The situation is indescribable thru words or conversation. Also when I looked out the peep hole I was unable to see anything. I have lots of friends and family that live within a 2 mile radius. Me not expecting anyone doesn't mean I ever thought something like this would happen. The bat was in my hand bc it's all I had and yes it was midnight, I had big money in the house, and a child. The bat was instantly dropped out of my hand as two 6 foot men dressed in all black, masks, boots and gloves with two guns pointed at my head standing in my living room. I had no outs at that point. Again I don't call the cops every time someone stops by the house. Live and learn is all I can say at this point. I hope these men are apprehended and I'm confident everyone involved is taking all the correct steps to make that happen. And that justice will be served. *jk*

Really sorry for the guy, all the stuff about "he should have had a gun" is just ******ed.

Even if he did have a gun at home it probably would not have changed anything and it is also highly likely things would have got a lot worse. The robbers came armed and for that kind of money would have probably used their weapons if needed. How many of you would honestly have the balls to engage in a shootout?


Hope that they catch these guys, I don't know if the guy had a family at the house or if he was on his own but it must have been some ordeal.



Edit just read the above message.

It is so sickening to hear you had a kid in the house at the time. Hopefully that will put things into perspective for all these internet warriors who think they would have been like Rambo.

You did 100% the right thing man to drop the bat and just let them take what they wanted with no resistance, hopefully they will be caught.

why did you let this combination happen? why did you have "big $$$" in the house? you made yourself a target.

not sure what i think of all your poker analogies in your post. seems like something still isn't adding up.

that said, if the events happened as described, glad your son and you made it through unscathed.

edit: no more mention of guns. as was mentioned up thread, don't derail the thread, there is no reason to discuss guns.

Was either of the two assailants wearing a Jedi outfit?

Are you going to sue Caesars? Did you post pictures on Facebook or any other social media platform?

If it's at night and I don't recognize them , always. People have cell phones and gps 's . No one rings strangers bells randomly and even if it was a harmless mistake, bells shoulda gone off when BOTH occupants came to the door.

It's simple , u approach the door, don't open it, with gun in hand . If they attempt to break through the door. POW POW POW. .there is no + EV situation in life that begins with opening your door for 2 adult make strangers in the dark

A $500 gun could have gotten him killed.

Maybe they didn't get robbed because they didn't answer the door

To the people who say why did you keep so much money in the house.
It doesn't matter how much you have inside your house
People at casino know who the high stakes players are with money, so they just assume you have a lot of money inside your house.

A lot of criminals don't need 150k to rob you, even 10 is enough

People rob liqueur stores with cameras for few hundred.

Um, not very natural

I couldn't agree with you more Sasha. At this time there is a lot of questions I can't answer or comment on due to the pending investigation. For that I apologize. Trust me I would love to. Right now, getting my mind right, my family safe, and answers on who did this to me is our main focus.

Thats very sad. I feel for the guy. I mean, he won that money through hard hard grinding and late nights just for a couple of scumbags to go and take it in a flash.
No one deserves this.
And lol at people saying he was dumb for opening his own front door. Definitely an inside job of some kind. Hope they catch the vermin.

And yes my neighbors front door is 2 to 3 feet from mine. Seeing no one is normal to me. They are up late. They smoke. And there grandson who is 21 was home from college always has his friends over and partying and doing whatever u know what I mean. If I'm about to get robbed I had no idea. Everything was normal and me peeking out to see bob smoking a cig laughing at me for always being paranoid is what i expected when I opened that door. Not pure hell and my life totally stolen from me

A tip going toward : excellent home security systems can be as little as 50$ a month . Mine has a devise with a panic button that sounds like a war zone when it goes off and goes straight to 911 as a distress call

Working overnight at a convenience store I got robbed when somebody "pulled a blade" on me. I finished my what was left of my shift (5-6 more hours). It was good conversation the rest of the day. Bitches.

Fingers crossed they catch these guys. I know how it feels to have a gun pulled on you. You are lucky you had the money man, sounds like they would have shot you out of frustration if they didnt get what they came for.

Thank god you and your son are safe.

The two most likely possibilities are a casino employee tipping someone off(your home address is on your players account I'd guess)or one of your friends who knows where you live and that you have been running hot tipping them off.

Posting chips on Facebook doesn't help either

or some reg/lurker/spotter in the casino? it isnt to hard to identify people who win big and follow someone to his/her home and come back to do the robbery.

I would watch my steps anyway if I play in that casino. maybe some other cases already exist. maybe burglaries.