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"Tiger Woods Of Poker" Loses Landmark Lawsuit For Cheating In Mayfair Casino

"Tiger Woods Of Poker" Loses Landmark Lawsuit For Cheating In Mayfair Casino

The American poker player, Phil Ivey, ten-time World Series Poker winner, lost his UK Supreme Court case to recover 7.7 million pounds ($10.2 million dollars) of winnings from Crockfords, a casino in London’s prime Mayfair district. Afterwards Ivey – known as the “Tiger Woods of poker” with $23 million of career winnings – complained that British judges have “no experience or understanding” of casinos. Crockfords accused Ivey of cheating, using a method called “edge sorting”.

Wiki explains edge sorting as follows.

A Case of Judicial Murder?

A Case of Judicial Murder?

John Remington Graham
 
I have been asked many times why I have intervened in the federal prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the young man who was convicted and sentenced to death in the Boston  Marathon bombing case where two brothers, on April 15, 2013, allegedly detonated pressure cooker bombs on Boylston Street in front of the Forum Restaurant that killed or maimed many people.

Search For "SWAT Team Tactics" Found On Las Vegas Shooter's Computer

Search For "SWAT Team Tactics" Found On Las Vegas Shooter's Computer

In another chilling breakthrough underscoring the meticulous planning undertaken by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, WSJ reports that investigators have found an internet search for techniques used by local police for breaching rooms in standoff situations on one of Paddock's computers. The report comes a day after ABC discovered that investigators have been unable to find a hard drive missing from a laptop found in Paddock’s thirty-second floor hotel suite, which was presumably destroyed by the shooter.

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