Friday, 23 October 2015
The man responsible for sabotaging the 2014 edition of the Borgata Winter Poker Open by introducing more than 500 fake casino chips has been sentenced to serve five years in prison.
Christian Lusardi was already serving time for a separate offence related to the bootlegging of DVDs and this most recent sentence follows his admission of guilt earlier in the year.Lusardi's downfall began when staff at the Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa suspended the event and began an investigation after noticing that the $2 million tournament had more chips in play than was physically possible given the number of entrants. At the same time, footage surfaced of the 43-year-old stuffing fake chips down the toilet of the neighbouring Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.Local police traced the incident to Lusardi and soon charged him with a separate offence relating to the importation and selling of fake DVDs. While serving a five-year term for this transgression, the North Carolina native was indicted for the counterfeit chips and will now additionally be required to pay damages of $463,540 to the Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa alongside $9,455 to Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off a second three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
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