Does Russ Hamilton & Annie have alibis for that evening?

how much did he lose?

Around $8,000

Lol at great town though, I don’t doubt it is but this made me laugh

Near the end of this video it was reported that Sal said the guy was driving a 4 door red car. You'd think with all the cameras the hotel properties have there would be some footage of the red car and possibly a license plate number. Also this happened at around 4 am so there probably wasn't a lot of other cars driving around the parking lot which would make zeroing in on it easier than almost any other time of the day.

I swear, everyone I know who's been to Barca has been mugged or pickpocketed.

I was there at the Mobile World Congress where everyone is passing around phones so people can check out your software. I'm at one of the after parties that's invite only, everyone there is wearing a suit and working in tech. I pull out the phone, open the app and hand it someone, he takes a look and hands to the guy next to him, etc etc. Meanwhile I'm in a conversation with the guy next to me. That phone is a test phone meant to demo how how the app works on one of the cheapest and worst producing android phones on earth - the phone itself has basically no value.

These are all supposedly C-level execs, talking some absurd net worth in the room. I'm not worried about the phone. After a few minutes, I notice phone is not coming back. I look and ask, nobody knows. Figure no big deal, will find it unattended on a table at some point. Again, nobody here could possibly want to steall a $50 phone specifically chosen for how cheap it is.

The phone did have an international sim card so it wouldn't need to rely on spotty wifi to operate so I gave it a call. That's weird, it's turned off. Did someone actually steal that? I find it humorous more than anything.

Next day call again, phone rings but nobody is answering. I figure someone found it and charged it. I keep calling throughout the day, nobody answering. Eventually it's turned off again. I give up. Sim Card is prepaid so not worried about it. Worst case he can do is use up the data and minutes that would expire at end of month anyway.

A week later I'm back in my home country. Phone is gone, no big deal, doesn't matter. But we want to replace the sim because it's one we give to employees when they travel and it's just easier to not have to change numbers. We go to the telecom company and request a replacement of the same number, they say no problem, but you guys overdrew so you first got to pay off remaining balance before we give you the replacement. I'm a bit surprised by this since it's a pay as you go plan. The employee is confused by it too. He says he's not even sure how it's possible himself. So I'm thinking it'll be like $5 or something where a phone call went a little long before they shut it off. He says I owe $1,300. I ask how on earth that is possible. He says he has no idea, from his end, he can only see the amount due, not how it ended up that way. I ask him how we can figure this out and he says, "look man, it'll cost this company more money to get this from you than how much you owe, they will never pursue this. But if you want to start pushing this matter right in front of someone's face who actually cares about their job, they may start not worrying so much about how this happened by why you aren't playing so my suggestion is just ignore this, never open another line with us under your name and either have your colleague here get the replacement under his name or go to another company."

To this day, I'm still unsure what happened. Whether it was someone who infiltrated the party or staff at the restaurant but they operated smoothly and somehow found a way to get $1300 out of a phone plan that for years we'd used and always had just cut us off once it ran out of money. The level of professionalism in petty crime in Barca is astounding.

this Guy I was playing beside this summer said someone had broken into his car and stole all his and his roommates clothes the first night he was at the Rio. It happened in the bottom lot, where you see one white security truck roll thru about every 30 minutes.

every year there is some horror story and yet everyone shows up like it will never happen to them. all that rake and minimal safety for the cash cow. kinda insane but that's the world we live in

Wasn't EPT Barcelona where Mercier got stabbed a bunch of years back? This **** can happen anywhere though.

Just read up cuz I've never heard about it and it was at a night club after the tourney. He was just celebrating and got stabbed by random locals it looks like.

Yeah, I had one attempted mugging right outside the door of the casino, on a fairly busy night. (I walked away from the guy and hopped into a cab. To be fair, I do not think he wanted to mug me as much as fight me.)

The hell with the muggings, stabbings, and pickpocketers, if Gresh says it's a great town, I'll have to visit someday.

I thought Barca was the EPT event where the hotel/casino it took place in was hacking the players laptops and putting spyware in them to steal from their online pooker accounts later. Or something equally sketchy like that, no? Or am I misremembering?

It is a great town.

OTOH, I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, my tolerance for such events may have been skewed in my formative years.

... and you wanted to go into the 24/7 poker hotel business on East Sahara in the Naked City area in Las Vegas ?

IIRC it was in San Remo, Italy

https://www.gambling911.com/poker/ja...me-082414.html

I don't think it's too outrageous to believe Mercier has could have been stabbed in multiple locations

You can never be too paranoid these days. They surely have teams scouting and following. Use valet. Vary your path. Split your money between wallet and pockets. Make sure you're not being followed. And yea, at the Rio, ask for escorts and remind them of the robberies, if enough people talk about it and request service, the more that will be done.

I lived in Barcelona for a few months about 10 years back now, and I hope this might help anyone who intends to visit.

Bad experience number 1:
Walking with my suitcase and laptop through the city centre towards the bus stop. Laptop is strapped diagonally over my shoulders. A man approaches me and points at my coat, and there was bird s**t (so I thought) all over my coat and strap. Natural reaction? Take your laptop off and put it on the ground to wipe the s**t off. The man immediately offers some tissue that he conveniently has to hand. I didn't think anything of it in the moment, in retrospect this was obviously a bit strange. I wipe the s**t (aka moisturising cream) off, and after no more than 10 seconds look back at the ground to discover my laptop had gone, along with the kind gentleman offering the tissue.

One man had approached me from behind, squeezed the moisturising cream over my coat, his accomplice makes me take my direction of eye travel away from my laptop, the squeezer makes off with my laptop, and gg, wp. It all happened so quick, and left me feeling rather bitter, angry and frankly bad beat!

Bad experience number 2:
The next time I go out with my (new) laptop on route home, myself and my friend stop outside the central bank slap bang in the very busy city centre where hundreds of people surround us. He needed to deposit so I waited outside the banks front door. I wanted to roll a cigarette, so I placed my laptop bag in between my legs with the strap wrapped around my legs. I finish making my cig, and a man approaches me from the left side and requests a lighter. I was rather young a naive at this time, so didn't think anything of it and was happy to light his cig. As I held my lighter up, a very old Spanish lady screamed as loud as she could, and a man approximately 2 foot to my right side, along with the man who wanted his cig lit bolted at 100mph down a side street. He was literally just about to attempt to grab my laptop bag (and probably knock me off my feet lol). Lucky escape!

I have many, many other experiences of hearing people scream, and these thieving c**t's sprinting out of/in to side streets.

This type of 'crime' is actually not even a criminal matter – it is a civil matter unless the amount stolen is over e400. When caught, these people get a 50 euro fine or a slap on the wrist and are back on the streets within hours – this is the rare occasions they do get caught. This has now given one of the most incredible and beautiful city's the most awful reputation. A real shame!

Robbed while playing at WSOP in Las Vegas - check
Pick-pocketed while played EPT in Barcelona - check

The perils of being a poker player!

sounds like we need to all band together and start putting exploding poop piles in our bags. this is funny shyt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIn5h_Azv4

I once requested a cheque for $4500 at a Canadian casino after a nice session (only bought in for $1000).

The process took about 10 minutes as the cashier had to call a supervisor who had to contact the poker floor manager who had to contact surveillance to verify that I did in fact win that much and I wasn't just laundering chips or something. They asked me what game I was playing and from what time.

Makes sense that they don't want to cut cheques so easily or someone might buy in for $piles of dirty cash, ask for a cheque and say they won a slot jackpot.

But yeah I'd rather wait a few minutes than carry too much money on me someplace unsafe.

[QUOTE=Steve00007;55239327]You’re not allowed to have any weapons in a casino.


This is false.

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[QUOTE=chijim;55245888] I didn't believe it, but saw this. You can even be drinking.

https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/faq-...ncealed-carry/

I will send you $10 to post a pic of your bum self. It is no surprise to anyone that you have not been robbed. It should be bannable to make posts like yours. Horrible.

I was nether mugged nor pickpocketed. My wristwatch vanished one afternoon, but since it was on my arm rather than in my pocket, technically that does not count.

yea spain is pretty sheit. just scammers and grifters everywhere. great story