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Poker Tournament Robbed on Live TV

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

Pretty amazing.

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13 Responses to “Poker Tournament Robbed on Live TV”

  1. #1 |  Ryan |  March 6th, 2010 at 5:01 pm

    Didn’t Dave Chappelle do a sketch about robbing a TV poker tournament?

  2. #2 |  Jet |  March 6th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    Hey, at least it wasn’t a poker tournament in the US, or the robbing thugs would have been police and the million smackaroos would have been tied up in asset forfeiture for years.

  3. #3 |  BobG |  March 6th, 2010 at 5:46 pm

    Hell, the American citizens get robbed every day on live TV on C-SPAN.

    “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.”
    -Mark Twain

  4. #4 |  DaveP |  March 6th, 2010 at 5:58 pm

    An interesting videwo, but I didn’t see much robbin’ going on.

    Hell, I can cause that much commotion in a crowded room while on good bender…

  5. #5 |  Ryan |  March 6th, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    Ok, I just remembered that the Chappelle sketch was a craps tournament and the robbery was just the ending bit.

  6. #6 |  Jeff |  March 6th, 2010 at 6:54 pm

    Countdown until someone uses this as a reason why poker should be illegal starts in 3… 2… 1…

  7. #7 |  SJE |  March 6th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

    I was assuming that it was going to be the police. Radley, you have us too well trained.

    Then, I remembered that if it had been the police, the cameras would have been seized as “evidence” and the owner prosecuted for illegally recording the police, immediately before “losing” or “damaging” all of the interesting bits of the videotape.

  8. #8 |  hamburglar007 |  March 6th, 2010 at 8:09 pm

    #5,

    It wasn’t just any craps tournament, it was the world series of dice.

  9. #9 |  Ben |  March 6th, 2010 at 10:49 pm

    Video from another angle. Shows the robbers in the lobby. A security guard has one in a head lock before the other robbers scare him off.

    http://www.hochgepokert.de/beta2/2010/03/06/panik-in-berlin/

  10. #10 |  Daniel V. |  March 7th, 2010 at 3:05 am

    Poker? Ich kenne sie kaum!

  11. #11 |  Noumenon |  March 7th, 2010 at 10:06 am

    Ben’s link gives me a lot more of the feeling of what it’s like to be robbed. Would love to have seen more of the violence to see whether it looked movielike or more like Violence: A Micro-Sociological Theory would predict.

  12. #12 |  Jet |  March 7th, 2010 at 11:32 am

    Excellent sleuthing, Ben!

  13. #13 |  Dude |  May 8th, 2010 at 12:41 pm

    keep up the good work, I feel agitated.

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