EPT Berlin thread

[MANTIS01]

The robbers should have worn famous poker player masks like the ex-presidents gang in Point Break. Ivey, Hellmuth, Brunson bursting in and robbing the casino would have been a nice touch.

[treefella]

The robbers should have worn famous poker player masks like the ex-presidents gang in Point Break. Ivey, Hellmuth, Brunson bursting in and robbing the casino would have been a nice touch.

Ye.  and helmuth cuda said something like " i can dodge bullets baby " !

[The Camel]

It's not a one off.

The Aviation in Paris was the subject of an armed robbery during a WPT tournament about 6 years ago.

Not sure what point you are trying to make, The Aviation is hardly a soft target and neither are any other casinos. 

Pokerstars have been negligent imo in creating a situation where huge amounts of money are effectively lying about in a hotel function suite. 

My point was that Stuart said he hoped this incident was a one off.

I was just saying it wasn't.

[TightEnd]

  by Simon Young  on March 7, 2010 9:44 AM

The European Poker Tour has released a new statement following yesterday's armed robbery at the Grand Hyatt Hotel here in Berlin. This statement corrects some of the misreporting of the incident in the media...

"Yesterday at approximately 2.15pm, an armed robbery took place at the European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Berlin. Nobody was seriously injured. Four armed men were involved in the robbery which targeted the tournament registration desk outside the tournament area.

No shots were fired and the suspects quickly fled after a security guard intervened. The police investigation so far has shown that the suspects had a handgun and a machete. Contrary to tabloid reports, no Kalashnikov assault rifles or hand grenades were used. The suspects did not enter the tournament area and the money taken was substantially less than what has been reported.

The tournament resumed after a few hours and a police investigation is now under way. The tournament is taking place on the first floor of the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Marlene-Dietrich-Platz and is being held by SPIELBANK Berlin Casino.

The police are working closely with the EPT and SPIELBANK Berlin. Police are asking anyone who has information, video footage or photographs that might aid the investigation to contact them."

[EvilPie]

Just a quicky for everyone who says that security needs to be beefed up to protect against this sort of thing.

Don't complain when your reg fees double.

Great report Mr Rutter.