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\tCarri Geer Threvenot, Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/p>\n
\tA professional gambler from New Jersey claims employees at Planet Hollywood Resort illegally detained him and stole nearly $5,000 in casino chips after they noticed him counting cards in June 2013.<\/p>\n
\tThe gambler, Ross Miller, filed a lawsuit against the Las Vegas resort in Clark County District Court on Monday, the same day he filed a case against the resort\u2019s owner, Caesars Entertainment Corp., in New Jersey Superior Court.<\/p>\n
\tIn the New Jersey case, Miller also claims he was illegally detained at three Caesars properties in Atlantic City in 2013.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe casinos in general have this negative stigma,\u201d Miller said in a telephone interview Thursday. \u201cThey dislike professional advantage players.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tMiller, 28, said card counters and other advantage players are not cheaters, but casinos often treat them as such. Card counting is simply a \u201cplaying strategy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\tCaesars spokesman Gary Thompson said the company does not comment on pending litigation.<\/p>\n
\tLas Vegas attorney Robert Nersesian is representing Miller in the Nevada case, but the plaintiff is representing himself in the New Jersey case.<\/p>\n
\tMiller first was detained on May 24, 2013, at Caesars Atlantic City, and he was acquitted of disorderly conduct a year later, the New Jersey complaint says. Miller believes that details of that incident, including his identity, were shared throughout the company.<\/p>\n
\tThe Nevada lawsuit indicates that Miller was card counting at blackjack on June 20, 2013, when he saw that he was being watched and decided to leave. He approached the Planet Hollywood casino cage to cash his $4,975 in chips.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the lawsuit, cage personnel took the chips and requested Miller\u2019s identification. Miller refused.<\/p>\n
\tWhen the personnel wouldn\u2019t cash Miller\u2019s chips, he tried to contact the Nevada Gaming Control board, but he lacked cell service at that location.<\/p>\n
\tThe lawsuit claims Planet Hollywood employees had a duty at that point to contact the board themselves. Instead, a security officer demanded Miller\u2019s identification, and Miller again refused to provide it.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the lawsuit, the officer then told Miller to leave or face charges for trespassing. As Miller began to depart, he stopped to take a picture of his chips.<\/p>\n
\tMiller then \u201cwas grabbed and handcuffed by Planet Hollywood personnel,\u201d the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n
\tCasino employees summoned Las Vegas police, who then initiated a criminal case against Miller, according to the lawsuit. The criminal case ended in Miller\u2019s favor, the document states, but he has yet to get his money back.<\/p>\n
\tThe lawsuit\u2019s claims include theft, false imprisonment, defamation, battery and malicious prosecution. Miller suffered cuts and bruises when he was detained, according to the document.<\/p>\n
\tAccording to the New Jersey lawsuit, Miller also was assaulted and detained in July 2013 at Harrah\u2019s Atlantic City and in November 2013 at the Showboat in Atlantic City. Both times, Miller was charged with disorderly conduct, but the charges later were withdrawn.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIn these particular cases, the stuff they did, it really hurt me,\u201d Miller told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/p>\n
\tMiller, who lives in Howell, N.J., said he spent thousands of dollars defending himself against the criminal charges.<\/p>\n
Posted by:<\/strong> NickatNight on January 9, 2015, 7:51 pm<\/p>\n Carri Geer Threvenot, Las Vegas Review-Journal A professional gambler from New Jersey claims employees at Planet Hollywood Resort illegally detained him and stole nearly $5,000 in casino chips after they noticed him counting cards in June 2013. The gambler, Ross…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Possibly the names are changed to protect the innocent???? \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"