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Wednesday 25th July 2007
Industry Insider has High Stakes Poker Scam Busted
Security at the Borgata Casino and Resort in Atlantic City called in the FBI to apprehend a ring of four cheats using hidden cameras to rig a high stakes poker tournament. Three hundred and thirty seven people had paid a £2,500 entry fee, creating a £1m prize pool.
A bent player was fed information about others’ cards from a hotel room nearby. However, despite one member of the group being a professional security consultant whose clients included major casinos, the plot failed. A spokesman for Boyd Gaming, owners of the Borgata Casino and Resort, said.
'The scheme did target high-end poker players, but off the floor. The security systems of the Borgata were never compromised, nor was the tournament. Customers were targeted, but not the games.'
Now, the main question the FBI will be looking to answer is whether or not the scam has been used at other tournaments. The local gaming authorities have been informed and they are looking out for similar cases of high tech cheating in Las Vegas.
This was not a concern for World Series of Poker commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, who said: 'I can't reveal our security measures, otherwise they wouldn't be very secure.’ But he assured players that, 'We have a state-of-the-art surveillance system in place at all times here.'
Source:OnlineCasinoNews
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