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Originally Posted by TAFFYMAN
This could turn out really bad for borgata. If njgc makes them refund everyone the remaining players have a very big lawsuit. Borgata is about to take a real big bubble bath
TAFFY:
Serves them right. I hope the NJGC does come down hard on the Borgata. If they had made an example of Men The Master years ago by prosecuting him and sending him off to do a 5-10 year prison stretch, (and put the fear of God in other would-be cheats by doing so), they might not be confronted with this calamity.
I've talked with old-timers, (i.e. Las Vegas dealers and other folks who were around back in the "good old days" - the 1950's and 1960's), when most of the Vegas joints were run by the mob. They've told me that back then if you got caught cheating, the "wise guys" had a very effective - and a very quickly dispensed - method of dealing with you ... they dragged you out in the alleyway and proceeded to impair your ability to walk. Nowadays places like the Borgata seem to be content with "Now tsk tsk boys. Please don't let us catch you cheating because it might make us look bad ..."
And some people wonder why poker is dying.
Broken Back Alan of Huntsville