Money-laundering. What he did was post several small bets rather than a single big one (those “hours upon hours” making bets at a kiosk). So he made a hundred $100 bets instead of a single $10,000 (numbers used for the sake of argument). Some casinos have rules against this because it can be used to launder money.
To me, he should have checked the rules first before going that route. But the casino should have also had security in place to catch the betting before it was made. I’m on the gambler’s side simply because the casino took the wagers, peiod.
FYI, got the details from The Sun. Yeah. I know. But it was also the onlty thing anyone siad that made sense. lol
This guy is a liar.
He “says” he wants to be anonymous and yet agrees to be featured in this article?
I would say being in this article is 100000 times more exposure than going up to person to place your bets.
Sure I can see that angle. But they should have had better systems in place to prevent it. They had him on the eye in the sky standing there for hours. The kiosk didn’t have a fail-safe such as not allowing the same parlay bet to be made mroe than 3 times within 20 minutes or something. They took his bets because they are generally considered sucker bets and thought they would win. It only became a “problem” for the casino AFTER they learned he had won. I have seen many stories like this and they are all shady on the part of the casino.
There is a woman who won a progressive table game something like $680,000. When it came time to pay her they told her “she was trespassed from the casino 7 years ago and is not allowed to play so they won’t pay”. But she had been playing for 7 years on junkets. The “trespass” incident had to do with a trip 7 years prior where she intervened to get her drunk cousin on the bus BEFORE they got thrown out. She claims she was never given a formal trespass, and besides she had been back time and time again year after year without being told to leave. Only when she hit the big one, the casino gets chintzy.
I read the Sun also and can’t figure out what he was doing.
Apparently he was placing a large number of small bets versus a fewer number of big bets to avoid his bets being voided when he placed them. I guess he would have to go to a live person to place a big bet and that person may reject his bet.
But, what was he doing that was against (except money laundering rules)the casino rules?
Anyone know?