Mission: To develop a uniform set of rules and procedures for the handling of tournament buy-ins that all casinos must adhere to. Focusing on the protection of funds for following five entities: the casino, the players, the tournament director, the floor staff, and the dealers. To improve the relationship between casinos and gaming commissions which will allow for the prosecution of all individuals involved in embezzlement.


Casinos choose to not prosecute for gaming commission reasons. Laying people off is easier, but it leadS to the continued employment of criminals.

1. dealer steals chips from cabinet in back office adds to stack at final table.

not prosecuted

2. floorman steals money from prize pool. pockets reentry money

not prosecuted

3. floorman steals money from prize pool. does not write entry down.

not prosecuted

4. dealer steals chips out of pot. caught on camera

not prosecuted

5. floorman steals dealer tokes.

not prosecuted

6. same floorman steals dealer tokes

not prosecuted

7. wsop tourney director let go under suspicion of theft

not prosecuted

8. wsop tourney director let go under suspicion of theft

not prosecuted

9, same tourney director -- charity event suspicion of theft

not prosecuted

10. wsop tourney director let go under suspicion of theft

not prosecuted

11. wsop tourney director let go under suspicion of theft

not prosecuted

12. poker room manager caught stealing

not prosecuted

how many before i should stop?
20?
40?
60?
how many is too many?
how many before it is not just my "twisted revenge"?
how many believe i think tipping is the issue we should all be concerned about?
how many before anyone cares?
how many before people get put in jail?
how many before **** is done right?
how many think this effects all poker players?
how many think we all should work together to stop this?
how many think i am mad as hell and just cannot take it anymore

http://forum.parttimepoker.com/shoot...ml#post8746501



Attention: Please PM me with affidavits. I am generating a report for the Nevada Gaming Commission. Requests for anonymity will be granted. PM WeebsUK on 2+2 or Parttimepoker

This type of thing happens all the time in every industry. It really annoys me when it a police officer who commits a crime and they are just fired instead of being formally charged. Usually they are relived of duty (with pay) for many months during the investigation which is also tilting.

Most employees who steal are simply fired without ever being prosecuted.
This is a problem in general and not specific to casinos.

i left the industry a year ago after being frustrated for years. i was approached recently by a ft player at a wsopc rebuy event. evidence of skimming and intimidation by floormen and tournament director is being gathered currently. affidavits are being sought out, and these peoples gravy train is about to be over.

it wouldnt be poker without a little skimming off the top.

not that no one gets off easy, but its not exactly the same burden of proof when it comes to firing people vs. prosecuting people.

the goal is not prosecution to be honest. i should reword it i guess.

the goal is to just have it reported to the gaming commissions. this way they will at the least lose their gaming license and never be allowed to work in the business again.

then we wouldn't be stuck with 30 years of criminals still currently working in the business, next to the good ones...of course.

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Feb 23rd, 2011 (2/23/2011 12:44am)

Let today be the beginning of the end for the horse-betting, house-losing, dealer-screwing, poker thieving scoundrel named Jimmy Sommerfeld. Who is going to beat us to him? The IRS? Harrah's Management? Or some jilted dealer in a dark alley? That really is THE $1m question.

Captured on voice recording on three seperate occasions are dealers and/or floor staff acknowledging Sommerfeld's wrong doing. The list of wrong doing is long and illustrious. His reputation alone is 'spotty' and well known...but not until now has actual proof existed to put this conniving scumbag in jail.

Sommerfeld heads up a 'Business' known as PTC...Poker Tournament Consultants...which is really not a company at all. He works for Harrah's. But when he is assigned an event, he earmarks $5 of EVERY tournament buy in..which falls under the category of 'registration fee' to his 'company.' For some kind of idea of what that adds up to...do some math. Add up the last 8 circuit events, multiply the total players by $5 and you will have the number of dollars that went into Jimmy's pocket.

As if that isn't bad enough...and oh...IT SHOULD BE!!!! At the recently concluded WSOP-CE Main Event at Harrah's Tunica...before the Main Event STARTED...the players were asked, as a show of appreciation to the dealers of 'This fantastic event' to all chip in a voluntary tip to the dealers before they got the cards in the air. THere were 480 players. One table alone saw $220 collected. Doing the math?

1 minute and 45 seconds after the money was collected by 'floor staff' guess what happened in the building? All the power went out! Lights...gone! It took two minutes before the power came on. Coincidence? You decide.

When asked later, an anonymous dealer stated "If any of you think that we got a penny of that money...your out of your ****ing mind! Jimmy's house in Florida is about to be foreclosed on, for the second time in three years...we all know where that money is going...but none of us want to risk being blacklisted for life. And since Harrah's has given him pretty much ALL of the circuit events, there isn't much we can really do, other than get ourselves shut out if we say something about it."

So...the poker DEALERS are petrified. I think we all get that. But what about all of you players? Who are paying this guys sports bets? Who are bailing him out when his house is about to be taken away from him? Did you know that the $10 'Dealer Appreciation Toke' only sees the dealer getting $7 of it? Doesnt matter to you? So if there is 50 dealers...and 400 players...and $4000 is raised for the dealers...which is $80 per dealer...instead, Jimmy is pocketing $1200. For ONE tourney. Add that up over a 15-20 tournament schedule...Ya getting this? Hey Players...THAT IS YOUR MONEY! Going into ONE greedy man's pocket!

Now...do we think he is claiming all of this ill-gotten money? Can all the money that has been collected be verified? Who is doing his accounting? Would he be able to hide this from the IRS? Is he that clever? Or is he just recklessly stealing from the players, as well as the company he represents?

If you research Poker TOurnament Consultants...you will see that the administrators are Jimmy himself, Bill Bruce, who is his primary floor person, and Monica Higgins, who works as the dealer cordinator as well as other 'administrative' duties.

I think the time to end the cash grab of Jimmy Sommerfeld has arrived. While Dark Avenger thinks jail time is in order for this Madoffian Scammer...at the very least, Harrah's needs to open their eyes and see what is going on under the banner of their prized gem, the World Series of Poker.

Dark Avenger

lil'degen is apart of the rebuy scandal i mentioned above.

Wha??t I don't understand any of this

When the Hard Rock poker room opened a few years ago in vegas, i was excited to be part of the new crew. What a beautiful room it was. After the usual struggles for new rooms, the #3 guy in the start up was now running the show. In the beginning, this guy already had a bad reputation before he got there. The staff was talking about him being laid off from the venetian for theft. It was not reported to the gaming commission.

My second day of work there i was shorted a down and I was told #3 did them last night they are correct. Intimidatingly dismissed by the #1. I new it was time to get out the second day i was there. There was no business and I was laid off by #3 which is always nice when the criminal gets to keep his job.

A few months later #3 comes into work goes into the cage and grabs the dealer tokes. He proceed to go to Terrible Herbst casino and lose it all on blackjack. In subsequent thefts he stole house chips and dealer tokes and gambled them away. He was eventually caught. He did not lose his gaming license.

A few months later, i am working the wsop at the rio. He is there along side me dealing. Infuriated that he would have the privilege to be my co-worker after all he did, I called Harrahs security. Two days later he was relieved of duties.

Today, after all that this guy has done. All the thefts, the schemes, and from his own co-workers. I get to see him dealing every night on the Pokerstars.net Big Game on FOX.

Feels Good Man

not too hard

gaming commission has been contact to understand protocol for an agent to be involved.

which 1 is he?

Sounds like poker consulting, or directing tourneys, is a much more reliable way to make moneys than actually playing in the tournaments themselves. Probably much more entertaining, too.

wow @ dark avengers post.. If that's all true, I hope that guy get's it.

Blaine Goodwin

At the 2010 wsopc in tunica, we were ordered into our morning meeting and informed lil'degen was coming to speak with us. The rant continued for half an hour. He was telling us all the things he has ever done for the dealers, and how grateful we should be. He was infuriated for one of us leaking some secret information. Seems that someone was asked how the $10 "dealers appreciation" was split. The dealer proceeded to tell the guy that it is $7 to the dealers and $3 to "staff". The player then raised a stink over the fact that this should be publicly known and not passed off as a tip to the dealers.

Lil'degen was furious at all of us for spreading this information. He continued to go on about how we should be grateful for everything he has ever done for us and continued to give us a tongue lashing. Once it was over, we turned and looked at each other and said, "wait, he's pissed that someone told the truth and leaked his little secret".

The ego on this guy is unbelievable.

who is Lil'degen?

ez to figure out, but cannot tell until the right time. he will be the most fun to take down. hundreds of my fellow colleagues will rejoice. then we can work on mending the fences.

Go Weebs!!
I'm a dealer too, In England mind where I don't think the situation is as bad as what appears to be happening in Vegas! I know in my casino there was a handling charge on my wages and tips until we organised to sort out our own tips.. The idea of someone stealing money from the tips is outrageous!
all the best on your quest!!

good luck to you in figuring all this out weebs

a response from lil' degen


and my response follows:


Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Sommerfeld
Craig- Be careful who you slander.

If you would like to contact poker tournament consultants attorney, I can give you the contact information.

I am very surprised at you craig. I actually gave you a floor position. The $10 you stated is a staff appreciation. It was split 70-30 as All tokes are. This is under the discretion of PTC.

Sorry if you did not see this as a fair practice. When you were on floor at IP and the satellite toke was split $15 to dealer and $5 to you, you did not seem to have a problem with this.

Please Stop your slanderous statements.

Thanks,
Jimmy
my quest has nothing to do with your staff appreciation. i will submit my full report when both the Nevada and Mississippi Gaming Commission tell me to.

building a foundation of repetitive deception

who live like this

Worthy effort raising awareness, Weebs. gl