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I happen to be good friends with the owner of this "club". He is a complete stand up guy and your accusations are [censored]. You are very far off the mark with your accusations I assure you and can't even belived that you suggest them. Think what you may about what happened but posting lies and nonsense under a fake name gain you no recognition here. I have no idea why this was posted in the first place and hope the whole thread gets deleted.

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Well, I guess it makes me feel a lot better about it that what appears to be a well respected poster is standing up for him. I think it's good that you did. Like I said in my original post I really like the guy too and felt bad for the beating he took. I didn't post any lies, only that I was unsure about it and that any time a club gets hit there is always question about indsider involvement. I wouldn't suggest it except it happens all the time. Certainly there was some insider involvement here, it is just a question of who and how much. Probably it was one indvidual player who got crushed or is just a real douche bag. I don't know and I would hope you don't either.

My reason for posting this is not to gain respect but to inform others who might choose to play in these enviorments of incidents like this because I don't think this is isolated and people like to keep it quite. I understand that but people pay to play in an honest and safe a game as possible. Is it a bad thing to let people know about stuff like this? I will say this I think the likely hood of someone getting serisouly hurt in an indicent like this is low. The crooks just want the money and it is the perfect crime if no one gets hurt and no cops are called. This is the main reason why when an owner gets hit the percentage of times they are in on it goes up.

So moving forward I think this place should be fine if they learn their lesson from this and think through some beefed up security/operational procedures for incidents like this. Hindsight is 20/20 but if the cops were called alot more money would be in poker players hands, not a bunch of guys in ski masks.