Phil Ivey wins £7.3m in London - Casino not paying...

[Grumbledook]

excuse daily mail link :/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/artic...rnal-inquiry.html

World’s number one poker player wins £7.3m in two nights - but top London casino REFUSES to pay out and launches internal inquiry

[pembo]

He's put on the weight, he looks terrible.

[stowjon]

[Grumbledook]

course it isn't illegal, the casinos can also legally not let you play there

they don't have to serve someone, just like you as a bar manager don't have to serve someone even if they can pay

[stowjon]

[Alex B]

I think it's sad that casino management would use a phrase like 'hit and run' as though they think its an advantageous strategy rather than some turnover that's more profitable than no turnover.

When I was young I used to think that companies would employ experts with interesting insights, but most examples I have seen over the last decade suggest otherwise.

Mainly in gambling, where I expected stat's experts and found level-1 punters running things (you can't use terms like EV and variance in a Bookie PLC), and in advertising, where I expected psychologists and found people who just like to hack together pretty pictures and mediocre copy.
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[Seb]

That's one of the things you realise. All the kids you considered mediocre grew up to run companies and countries, and what they call society is a fabrication to keep people from looking behind the curtain. Transistors and plexiglass and surgery and cryptography and banks can be manufactured and apparently 'owned' by everyday people who weren't there at their creation and don't understand how they work or how they alter the user. I don't understand how most things work, but I wouldn't hope to be mistaken for an expert on them.

[_doubleup]

Seb - you've leaked into the real world

[Bogus]

[Unclean]

This is actually pretty serious for Genting and its relationship with us.


Ivey doesn't have a reputation for ripoffs, AFAIK, plus the news report underlines the fact that the game was micro-managed by the casino.

This is not a good bode.

[Marcus6]

[Nem]

[Captain Pedro]

He was operating under their controls, their conditions. He even had to promise to play for a significant amount of time!

He won so pay up.

If you subsequently suspect that he won the money by means other than fair and square THEN go through the channels to get it back.

Unless somebody knows of some agreed terms and conditions that the club has in place saying that they are able to withhold monies whilst an investigation is carried out.

If there are such t's & c's then fair play.

Also, I thought that gambling winnings/losses are not legally enforceable...am I wrong?

[Davy G]

[_doubleup]