Card Player – The gambling world can sometimes produce really off-the-wall stories. Every month there are plenty of cases of individuals going to extreme lengths to pay back debts, or of simply bizarre behavior at casino properties around the globe. It can be entertaining and sometimes sad.
August was no exception, as there was plenty that happened in the casino world. Here’s a look at some of the most colorful and noteworthy from the month that was.
Rush Street Gaming was on the hot seat recently for allowing a compulsive gambler to remain in its Philadelphia casino for three days straight in February. It was the third time this gambler, who had put himself on the state’s casino exclusion list because of problem gambling, was caught in the casino. He had been previously discovered after four nonstop days of gambling in July 2012 and an earlier incident in January 2012.
Bobby Riggs allegedly agreed to throw the match for forgiveness of his $100,000 in gambling debt. Tennis great Billie Jean King scored a victory for women everywhere when she trounced aging chauvinist Bobby Riggs 40 years ago — but her triumphant win in the “Battle of the Sexes” may have been manipulated by the Mafia, according to a new report.
One man was killed and another critically injured after a carjacking at the Flamingo valet ended in a crash outside the Rio Las Vegas police said. The car theft happened about 11 a.m. when a man jumped into a pickup that was being loaded up with luggage by two California men. One man was in the pickup bed already and as it drove off, the other man also jumped into the pickup bed. The driver ran three red lights as the pickup headed west on Flamingo Road, police said. The pickup soon crashed into an SUV at Flamingo and Valley View Boulevard ejecting the two men from the bed of the pickup.
Approximately 1 in 5 UK citizens have had their online accounts hacked including “email, social network, banking, and online gaming”. A new survey by the University of Kent’s Cyber Security centre found that 18.3 per cent of respondents had suffered from this sort of cybercrime.
