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ATLANTIC CITY — The Golden Nugget is alleging it was dealt a bad hand — and now it wants retribution.

According to a report on PressofAtlanticCity.com, the casino claims it lost $1.5 million from an April 30 mini-baccarat game lasting about 2 1/2 hours in which cards were not shuffled properly.

While Golden Nugget blames the vendor that provided the cards for not shuffling them properly before they were used, they are still asking the court to order the 14 winners to return their winnings from that evening, the report said.

Some of the winners have yet to be paid, and they are seeking legal action against the casino. All of the winners are Asian-American and allege they are victims of racial discrimination at the hands of Golden Nugget, according to the report.

While the casino said it lost in excess of $1.5 million from the incident, according to their lawsuit, $977,800 worth of chips has yet to be redeemed.

The state agency that regulates Atlantic City’s casino industry is reportedly investigating the disputed game.


Added: Jul-17-2012 Occurred On: Jul-17-2012
By: echo4250
In: Regional News
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  • I hope the winners sue the shit out that casino.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    WingSP117 (1286.66)  

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  • FUCK YOU.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    VikingRapeSquad (1330.90)  

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  • notice how none of the losers get compensated.

    lovely racket.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    heydoin (170.24)

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  • The Casino should assume all responsibility when something like this happens and accept it's loses.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    SFCM (23.24)

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  • Is the bad press worth it? Pretty sure they lose much more than 1.5million of potential income from all the people who decided not to gamble with them anymore. I mean, who will gamble there when you are not sure you will get paid when you win big???

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    Brad Dell (154.10)

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  • Maybe the Golden Nugget can qualify for a government funded bailout.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    CardCarryingCardCarrier (314.20)  
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  • Fuh-ged abouded! LMAO

    Screw that casino. The owner ( Tilman Joseph Fertitta) is a Billionaire.

    He appears to be a cheap asshole as well. Regardless of his contention that the cards were not properly shuffled is his problem.

    Pay up chump!!

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    downhill2400 (1309.58)

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  • No surprise here typically money hungry human's trying to kick you while your down. This casino is going to lose so much business.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
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  • So, this tells me that they "fix" (and have done so in the past to their advantage) the odds of the game by a method of shuffling the cards ahead of time so you can't win as easy.

    Now if you or I had some sort of advantage, they'd toss you out. Claim it as cheating.

    They should shuffle their own cards before using them. Like buying an apple and not washing it before you eat it.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
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    • @Rhemis The casino shuffles the cards fair and square but on baccarat the casino does not shuffle the cards anymore .the casino buys cards from a company and they come per shuffled so the casino can save time by not holding up the game shuffling .the Asians playing had a guy inside the card company and knew how the cards were going to come out .very simple

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    • @markymark69 And i suppose the guy on the inside knew exactly when these decks were going to be played?? get real!!

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    • @parasela Who said he only set one deck ...for your info the only preshuffled cards the casino uses are for the baccarat table .everything else uses shuffling machines on the table ..

      Posted Jul-18-2012 By 
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    • @markymark69 Not me!! My reply reads " these decks", plural. I understand how they work the tables in AC, been there, done that, will do it again. My comment to you still stands, how "the guy on the inside" would know exactly when and, at what table, these unshuffled deckS would be played along with his cohorts having that same knowledge. Get real!!

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    • @parasela Ok I'm going to explain to you how this would work .just so you know I'm not talking out of my ass I'll let you know I was a casino manager for royal Caribbean cruise lines 99-03and I worked in las Vegas from 1995-08 as a pit manager .there are many scams and on baccarat ,whole shoes have been switched without anyone noticing ....so as to this one .a guy in the card factory sets a group of decks in a certain order .the first card out which is the burn card would be a certain predeterm More..

      Posted Jul-19-2012 By 
      markymark69 (548.04)

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  • Imagine that...someone else playing the race card.

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    echo4250 (738.84)

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  • Thats bullshit, good luck for a player to sue the casino after losing money saying the exact same thing!

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
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  • fuck you...pay up you greedy twats

    Posted Jul-17-2012 By 
    eeep (844.78)  

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