{"id":9051,"date":"2015-08-14T16:57:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/man-admits-bringing-counterfeit-chips-to-poker-tournament\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T16:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T16:57:49","slug":"man-admits-bringing-counterfeit-chips-to-poker-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/14\/man-admits-bringing-counterfeit-chips-to-poker-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits bringing counterfeit chips to poker tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i59.tinypic.com\/16288j8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\tATLANTIC CITY, N.J. \u2014 A North Carolina man has admitted bringing millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to use in an Atlantic City casino&#8217;s poker tournament. The scheme was uncovered after the man clogged a pipe by flushing the chips down the toilet in his hotel room.<\/p>\n<p>\tProsecutors say 43-year-old Christian Lusardi of Fayetteville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty Thursday to trademark counterfeiting and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>\tOfficials believe he tried to flush the chips because he feared the scheme would be exposed.<\/p>\n<p>\tUnder terms of a plea agreement, Lusardi will be sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>\tHe will be required to pay the Borgata Hotel Casino &amp; Spa $463,540 for the revenue it lost when it canceled the 2014 tournament after discovering the fake chips. He&#8217;ll also owe Harrah&#8217;s Casino Hotel $9,455 for damaging the pipes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on August 15, 2015, 11:12 am<\/p>\n<div>Some people are idiots. I have heard of all sorts of things where casino players try and bring in counterfeit chips into play.  Heard about one guy who did this but the $100 fake chilps were about 3% larger and would not bit in the dealer chip tray at Black Jack. <\/p>\n<p>\tAnother one is where players take a $1 bill, put it in some sort of solution and then print over what is left to make it look like $100 bills.  They insert into a slot machine&#8211;or one of the bill breaking machine located on the casino floor and it won&#8217;t fit and security is alerted and boom they are caught.  <\/p>\n<p>\tI am sure there are many other stories.<\/p>\n<p>\tDoc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. \u2014 A North Carolina man has admitted bringing millions of dollars in counterfeit poker chips to use in an Atlantic City casino&#8217;s poker tournament. The scheme was uncovered after the man clogged a pipe by flushing the&#8230;<\/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-9051","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\/9051","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=9051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}