The House Always Wins
The Golden Nugget Casino in New Jersey is suing a group of 14 gamblers, plus a playing card manufacturer, for $1.5 million dollars claiming they cheated the casino out of that much money. The 14 players went on the huge run playing mini baccarat for 41 hands. The same sequence of cards kept coming up during the game, so the players started betting the table maximum. The casino put out this statement:
“The gamblers unlawfully took advantage of the Golden Nugget when they caught onto the pattern and … by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits.”
Why would a dealer take a bet higher than the table limit? They’re also going after the playing card company, alleging that the cards the company sold them were never shuffled before being sold to the casino. The Golden Nugget only paid out about 500k of the money won, they got wise and refused to pay out the rest of the million dollars in chips that were won. No one was cheating, they were just taking advantage of a casino screw up. Is there any reason to side with the casino on this?
Read more at abcnews.com.
