Four People Charged With Poker Fraud
The four Italians operated in a French casino
They managed to steal some money earlier this year, in August
The online poker world is so massive, it simply cannot incorporate every single type of person out there. And every real life type of guy has its equivalent in online poker. You’ve got the slackers – fishes that only bring joy to sharks every single time they log on. And speaking of sharks, we’ve got the online poker players that love the game and truly put some work into the game, and usually their payouts match their level of commitment.
And then there are the guys we never want to see, the players that take the “other”, less legal route towards growing their bankroll. Thankfully, though, online poker companies do a great job keeping sites as free of these people as possible, and the results are showing: online gambling, in general, and online poker, in particular, are some of the safest industries you can find online.
This time, the cheating didn’t happen online, but the story is remarkable nonetheless. The latest poker news show a group of Italian men that managed to steal at least $27,000 from a casino in Cannes. Apparently, they weren’t amateurs either, as they were linked by journalists with “serious organized crime”.
The three Italians had some inside help from one of the casino dealers. They first drew attention on themselves back in August, when they made another trip to the French Riviera. Back then, they managed to walk off with over $60,000 in illicit winnings, with nobody inside the casino being the wiser to their intricate scam. However, authorities started to place them under surveillance.
Recently, on the group’s second trip to Cannes, the four men were taken into custody after they pocketed another $27,000. Their pictures have been posted up in casinos across Europe in an effort to see if they worked in any other locations.
This isn’t the first story of these activities, and it’s not even the first one to break out this year: just a couple of weeks ago, two poker pros were caught after managing to steal more than $70,000 after playing and cheating on a game of craps through “sliding” the dice.
At the end of the day, we don’t know whether to be happy that these guys keep getting caught, or wonder how many more are out there doing their business undisturbed.
