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They can weigh the pros and cons of pissing off some subset of the poker players they were trying to attract vs the benefit they get from schmoozing the highrollers.
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Wouldn't be the first time for the Venetian...
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venetian casino to pay $1m over rigged contest
The Venetian is paying $1m in fines after the gaming board found that executives rigged a 2002 contest to compensate a high roller who had lost a lot of money.
The complaint and settlement show a casino executive hid the winning ticket for the SUV in his shirt sleeve and pretended to draw it randomly. Casino officials reported the incident to gambling regulators shortly after receiving information about the phony drawing.
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2 other prizes in the contest were rigged too. Moral of the story: don't buy a new SUV, just high roll at the Venetian?
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Found the quote above while doing a search and landing
here. The original story (which was on sfgate.com) is long vanished.
I'm sure the board would like answers, but I heard through the grapevine just yesterday that Lee Vinocur was removed from the position as poker room manager at the Venetian a couple days ago.