Canterbury Shenanigans

[Justin A]

This may be better suited for B&M, but I'm posting it here cuz I know you guys and because there's a lesson to be learned in here somewhere.

I came in late last night for a short 30/60 session. After about an hour and a half I racked up, and as I was leaving, the guy to my left who had sad down about 15 minutes before asked to buy some chips. He spread out six $100 bills so I gave him three stacks, picked up the rest of my chips and walked over to the cage with the bills still in my hand.

When I got to the cage I slid my chips to the cashier, and then took a closer look at one of the bills. It seemed slightly odd so I held I held it up to the light to see the watermark on the right side of the bill. Unfortunately instead of seeing Ben Franklin staring back at me, it was Abe Lincoln. The bill was a counterfeit that had been made from an old five dollar bill that had been washed clean and reprinted. I immediately asked the guy at the cage what I should do since I just got passed a fake bill. He told me to go talk to the poker room manager about it. Luckily for me this whole time the bill never went into my pocket or got mixed up with the other cash I had on me.

So I first walked over to the guy to see if he would make good on the bill he just passed me, but he gave some crappy excuse about getting all his bills from Canterbury, so I took my case to the poker manager. After some deliberation and phone calling, she came back and told me it wasn't CP's responsibility since it was a player to player transaction. I asked to talk to the bill passer again, and I told him he could either make good on the money or I'd have the cops called in. He refused so the security guy called the cops.

They basically took both of our accounts, checked the tapes, and eventually someone came to me and handed me a $100 bill. I asked what happened and they told me the bill passer had decided to pay up. I can only assume the tapes collaborated my story and the guy decided to avoid any further questioning from the police.

So the whole point is that now because of one stupid guy, I will no longer be selling chips at the table or to anyone except the casino cashier. The guy may have done it on accident, but I'll never know. Either way this sucks and you guys should make sure you're getting real bills when doing transactions at the table. Also I'd like to point out that I think it is a coincidence that this happened at Canterbury, and probably could have happened anywhere. The floor staff and security personel handled it very well IMO.