Man who brought fake chips to poker tournament gets prison, A poker amateur is traveling to bastille for bringing millions of dollars in affected chips to a clash and again breaking the accouterments if he ablaze them down a toilet to adumbrate the evidence.
A adjudicator on Thursday bedevilled Christian Lusardi to 5 years in prison. Lusardi aswell have to pay $463,540 in amends to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for the acquirement it absent if it canceled the 2014 clash in Atlantic City and $9,455 to Harrah's Casino Hotel for damaging its plumbing.
Lusardi, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pleaded accusable to brand counterfeiting and bent mischief.
Authorities said Lusardi doubtable his arrangement had been apparent so he ablaze the affected chips down the toilet in his allowance at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, area he had been staying. But the chips chock-full the pipes, and guests on the attic beneath complained that baptize was decrepit into their rooms.
Maintenance was called, and the chips were found. An added 22 clash chips account $5,000 were begin in a chock-full toilet in the Borgata the next day. A absolute of $3.6 actor account of clash chips were recovered, admitting they had no absolute banknote value.
The clash was declared to run for three weeks but was concluded afterwards three canicule if the affected poker chips were found. Investigators bent $800,000 in affected chips had been put into play during the aboriginal two canicule of the tournament.
There were 27 humans actual in the Borgata Winter Open Big Stack, No Limit Authority 'Em accident if play was suspended. The $1.5 actor in actual cost money was put on authority afore the accompaniment Division of Gaming Enforcement ordered the money be broadcast and access fees refunded.
Lusardi had won $6,814 in the tournament.
Investigators said he purchased the chips online from a Chinese architect and again put a affected Borgata logo on them. In acknowledgment to the scam, the Borgata began application added intricate chips with added colors and an affidavit aspect that can be arrested beneath ultraviolet light.
A adjudicator on Thursday bedevilled Christian Lusardi to 5 years in prison. Lusardi aswell have to pay $463,540 in amends to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa for the acquirement it absent if it canceled the 2014 clash in Atlantic City and $9,455 to Harrah's Casino Hotel for damaging its plumbing.Lusardi, 43, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pleaded accusable to brand counterfeiting and bent mischief.
Authorities said Lusardi doubtable his arrangement had been apparent so he ablaze the affected chips down the toilet in his allowance at Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, area he had been staying. But the chips chock-full the pipes, and guests on the attic beneath complained that baptize was decrepit into their rooms.
Maintenance was called, and the chips were found. An added 22 clash chips account $5,000 were begin in a chock-full toilet in the Borgata the next day. A absolute of $3.6 actor account of clash chips were recovered, admitting they had no absolute banknote value.
The clash was declared to run for three weeks but was concluded afterwards three canicule if the affected poker chips were found. Investigators bent $800,000 in affected chips had been put into play during the aboriginal two canicule of the tournament.
There were 27 humans actual in the Borgata Winter Open Big Stack, No Limit Authority 'Em accident if play was suspended. The $1.5 actor in actual cost money was put on authority afore the accompaniment Division of Gaming Enforcement ordered the money be broadcast and access fees refunded.
Lusardi had won $6,814 in the tournament.
Investigators said he purchased the chips online from a Chinese architect and again put a affected Borgata logo on them. In acknowledgment to the scam, the Borgata began application added intricate chips with added colors and an affidavit aspect that can be arrested beneath ultraviolet light.
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