Players Arrested at Baccarat Table

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Last night a few people were arrested after a major fight amongst them on the casino floor at the Baccarat tables last night.  Scuffle city, lots of action!

Pretty much a normal game. Just started, crowded, all incurring wins and losses of course. Banter back-and-forth amongst most everyone. About half Asian the rest were a few Latinos and whites. Mostly all known players.

Very well-known player walks up and talks to one of the individuals seated. His look by far is not the average one that he normally has. There is a guy standing a few seats away that just threw in about $700/800-ish and won the hand. Then he wagers on the next hand and won that one as well. The guy standing up and wagering on someone's spot was extremely quiet while not making eye contact with anyone.

The well-known player standing says something along the way of, now you should pay what you owe. Another well-known seated player whom I know it's not friends with the one that was standing that just said that, told him that the chips the guy was playing with was his money that he gave the guy. 

Turns out the guy standing, did previously borrow about $3K from the guy that told him, now you should pay what you owe. And it was owed to him, he just didn't want to come out and say that at the table in front of everyone.  Someone that was at the table with us did walk over to the guy standing whom was owed the money that the guy now obviously had, said a few things in Laos to the guy trying to get him to stop building the situation up that was quite evidently happening. 

Still no response or eye contact from the guy that owed the $3K to the other guy. The guy was still standing there wagering hands. I'm sure the guy that walked over and talked to the guy the money was owed to, told him that the guy claiming to have previously loaned the money obviously did not. 

The guy that was owed the $3k, his face was turning red. Not so much about the money IMO that was owed to him, but about the lying and the refusal to say anything or look at him.

The guy that the money was owed to, walked over to the guy standing and wagering, then said I shouldn't do this and hit him smack in the face and repeated it a second time on the opposite side. The guy that owed the money returned punches and the guy sitting that claimed to have lent the money to the guy, stands and attempts to break it all up. We all get up from the table and form a semi circle because we know security and on-premise sheriff deputies would be running over within a minute or two.

All three then began throwing full powered strikes at each other with the one who owed the money being knocked onto the table itself, causing numerous chips to scatter on the table and the floor. The dealer quickly grabs her chip rack cover and locks it down over the bank after loud verbal instructions from the pit boss. All kinds of personnel are running over to our table from inside the pit.

A few moments later several security and police officers arrive. All three of the players are handcuffed and lead away. The pit boss and security officers sort out the scattered chips and the chips that were belonging to the player seated, are put in a rack and given to one of the security officers.

Just another day around money I guess.

No party wound up pressing charges against the other I found out. All three received a 30 day ban from the property. It would have been permanent or for much longer, if any of the parties pressed charges and involved the criminal end of it.

I just have to post this link for the song that fits here, love the thoughts of the casinos and gaming included in it.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w9vqQlJijbU&list=RDw9vqQlJijbU&start_radio=1&pp=ygUQbW9uZXkgcGluayBmbG95ZKAHAQ%3D%3D