getting robbed at Los angeles Casinos

[pig4bill]

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curious how safe one's money is INSIDE places like this.
Thinking in terms of pickpockets, getting robbed or roughed-up in the mens' room, and having chips disappear from your stack while you're looking away or away from the table.

It sounds like the southern-Cal rooms are way more degenerate-central than most rooms I am used to. And I don't how much faith I would have in security and cameras to successfully catch every sneaky pick-pocket or chip-stack stalker.

I've never been to the California rooms. Would such concerns be considered over-the-top ridiculous?

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I've been playing at LA area card rooms for a couple of decades and haven't had an problems like these. When I leave the table I always have come back to find my stack in place. No problem in any mens rooms and I have gone in there with rolls and counted it out in the stalls. I almost always valet park but the times I've self parked (including this weekend at the hustler because the lot is so small) I haven't been worried nor have I heard any horror stories from regulars except about the lot at HP.

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Who's going to steal from a guy that looks like Winston Churchill?

[*TT*]

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I carefully tuck the family jewels back into my pants and wheel around.

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Misplayed the first time you posted this, and its still misplayed. Next time turn around with your Johnson hanging out and urinate on his shoes.

[Rick Nebiolo]

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Good post title, huh? I actually posted this a hundred years ago, everybody who read it except me and Zee are probably dead so here it is again.

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I remember this one and I'm not even dead. And I can see you're like me in that you find it simpler (or perhaps more fun) to re-tell the story from scratch then dig through the older archives to link to the old one.

~ Rick

[moon_ake]

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american solution : buy a firearm

french solution : play like a fish => no win, no money, no robery

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ha ha, your location tells me you're levelling! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[ThaHero]

I guess being a young black male has its advantages sometimes. I don't think many people would target someone that stereotypically looks like they could be a gang member or affiliated, carrying a weapon on them as well, and may fight back.

[budblown]

I consider Hawaiian Gardens my home casino because it's the closest to my house. I live about 5 minutes away (roughly about 3 miles) and pretty much know most of the Vato's that live across the street (HG isn't the best neighborhood - a detective was shot in the face and killed a few years ago while knocking on a door) As I'm leaving the casino I take my usual back-way exit by the school(anybody who goes to HG knows which exit I'm talking about) and i see headlights at the end of the street - roughly 1/4 mile away. I never drive the same way home 2 times in a row in case someone is following me. I make my usual two wrong turns and this van is still following me. Finally I'm pulling up to a light and at the last second I jump into the left hand turn lane and the van does the same move. I know now that this guy is following me to do what I am assuming is a follow home robbery (I'm not a high limit player so I know they weren't watching me cash out - well if they did they gotta be the worst robbers ever) Then talk about hitting a 1 outer a cop passes thru the intersection and pulls into the 711 on the corner. When the light turns green I duck into the 711 and the van keeps going past me and turns into a residential neighborhood. I pull up to the cop and tell him whats going on and watch him go drive down the neighborhood and I see the van take off once the cop had driven past it. I then wait for the cop to come back and give me an escort home. First time I've ever been thankful to see a cop.

[Humble Pie]

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First time I've ever been thankful to see a cop.


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[csuf_gambl0o0r]

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I guess being a young black male has its advantages sometimes. I don't think many people would target someone that stereotypically looks like they could be a gang member or affiliated, carrying a weapon on them as well, and may fight back.

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tru dat

[SNOWBALL]

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I consider Hawaiian Gardens my home casino because it's the closest to my house. I live about 5 minutes away (roughly about 3 miles) and pretty much know most of the Vato's that live across the street (HG isn't the best neighborhood - a detective was shot in the face and killed a few years ago while knocking on a door) As I'm leaving the casino I take my usual back-way exit by the school(anybody who goes to HG knows which exit I'm talking about) and i see headlights at the end of the street - roughly 1/4 mile away. I never drive the same way home 2 times in a row in case someone is following me. I make my usual two wrong turns and this van is still following me. Finally I'm pulling up to a light and at the last second I jump into the left hand turn lane and the van does the same move. I know now that this guy is following me to do what I am assuming is a follow home robbery (I'm not a high limit player so I know they weren't watching me cash out - well if they did they gotta be the worst robbers ever) Then talk about hitting a 1 outer a cop passes thru the intersection and pulls into the 711 on the corner. When the light turns green I duck into the 711 and the van keeps going past me and turns into a residential neighborhood. I pull up to the cop and tell him whats going on and watch him go drive down the neighborhood and I see the van take off once the cop had driven past it. I then wait for the cop to come back and give me an escort home. First time I've ever been thankful to see a cop.

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no cell phone?

[Diamond Lie]

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I consider Hawaiian Gardens my home casino because it's the closest to my house. I live about 5 minutes away (roughly about 3 miles) and pretty much know most of the Vato's that live across the street (HG isn't the best neighborhood - a detective was shot in the face and killed a few years ago while knocking on a door) As I'm leaving the casino I take my usual back-way exit by the school(anybody who goes to HG knows which exit I'm talking about) and i see headlights at the end of the street - roughly 1/4 mile away. I never drive the same way home 2 times in a row in case someone is following me. I make my usual two wrong turns and this van is still following me. Finally I'm pulling up to a light and at the last second I jump into the left hand turn lane and the van does the same move. I know now that this guy is following me to do what I am assuming is a follow home robbery (I'm not a high limit player so I know they weren't watching me cash out - well if they did they gotta be the worst robbers ever) Then talk about hitting a 1 outer a cop passes thru the intersection and pulls into the 711 on the corner. When the light turns green I duck into the 711 and the van keeps going past me and turns into a residential neighborhood. I pull up to the cop and tell him whats going on and watch him go drive down the neighborhood and I see the van take off once the cop had driven past it. I then wait for the cop to come back and give me an escort home. First time I've ever been thankful to see a cop.

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paragraphs are a dying trend on these forums

le sigh