Posts Tagged ‘live poker’

EPT Berlin Robbers thrown in Jail

As if there weren’t already enough players moving to online poker and looking to collect rakeback money, the EPT Berlin incident where four armed gunmen stormed the Grand Hyatt Berlin and took over $250,000 of the prize money forced a whole lot more player into Internet poker.  Luckily though, live poker tournament players can feel a little safer now since police have arrested suspects that are connected with the crime.

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Armed Robbers steal EPT Berlin Money

Apparently there aren’t enough rakeback deals going around in online poker so people are resorting to robbing live poker tournaments to make money.  Four armed gunmen stormed the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Berlin, Germany the other weekend in pursuit of the €1.36 million prize pool that was up for grabs in the European Poker Tour Berlin tournament.

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