Poker Poker Poker!: [vpFREE] Re: Imperial Palace

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, TedChee@... wrote:
>
> In a message dated 7/11/2003 10:24:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:
>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:52:36 -0000
> > From: "ted white" <fastandfurious@...>
> > Subject: Re: LVRJ - EDITORIAL: 'Advantage' gamblers
> >
> > I have a somewhat related story although not VP. This happened
a few
> > years ago at the Imperial Palace. I witnessed a guy win about
$7,000
> > in an hour playing blackjack. When he went to the cashier's
cage to
> > cash out, two security guys slammed him up against an empty
craps
> > table twisting his arm painfully behind his back.
> >
> > He screamed for someone to call the police (which I did). They
> > claimed that the chips he initially used were counterfeit. It
was
> > true that he pulled some black chips out of his pocket to play.
It
> > wasn't until I read this recent article that I wondered about
that
> > episode.
> >
> > Has anyone else witnessed something similar?
> >
>
> It sounds in character. This is the casino that had a room for
Nazi
> memorabilia and obersved Hilter's birthday for a couple of years.
>
> The owner, Ralph Engelstad, died last year. He may have been a
good man but
> the miscues above will always overshadow his record when IP &
strong-arm
> tactics are mentioned together.
>

You know, if this had happened any place other than Nevada, the
guards would have been charged with assault and battery (which they
certainly were guilty of, but in Nevada, casino security guards can
KILL people without fear of prosecution).

What was the outcome? Did they finally release the guy? Did he file
any sort of complaint with anyone--police, Gaming--? (Not that the
effort would have been anything but futile, but....)

As is, has been, and will always be true in Nevada casinos, the
crime that that person committed was WINNING. Thus, in the twisted
world of Nevada, the guards acted properly in assaulting, beating,
and detaining him. The IP and Englestad's Hitler cult, while perhaps
being one of the nuttiest places to have ever existed, weren't and
aren't at all unique in this regard. In fact, I doubt that there
exists a SINGLE casino in Nevada where winning players haven't been
physically attacked by the casino.