David Saab, 30, had huge problems with his economy when he decided to play poker for a living back in 2005. It only took 3 years before he had made hundreds of thousands dollars from poker and lived a luxurious life at different casinos around the globe. The biggest cash in his poker career came at the 2008 Asia Poker Tour when he took home the Main Event for $280,000.
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Well I would like to agree, as most people who do this are fairly bright people and very well organised, but he is a sucker, he hires a van in HIS name to collect the shipment HIMSELF then opens the parcels HIMSELF before being arrested(the shipment was swapped on-ruote by the cops). Now if I was to organise an 8 million operation guess who wont be there.
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Posted by B1gfoot: Well I would like to agree, as most people who do this are fairly bright people and very well organised, but he is a sucker, he hires a van in HIS name to collect the shipment HIMSELF then opens the parcels HIMSELF before being arrested(the shipment was swapped on-ruote by the cops). Now if I was to organise an 8 million operation guess who wont be there.
Didn't know that details. That does seem pretty silly of him.
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Maybe I have seen too many movies, but it almost, _almost_, seems lika a happy amateur that thinks he has found a brilliant business oppurtunity. The kingpin hears the word on the street, and contacts his crooked cop connection (or just tips them of with an anonymous call), and the dude gets caught.
The cops get credit and the kingpins business goes on as usual.
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there's some guys that r too stupid and lazy for anything else so from them i expect this kind of thing. but a poker pro?!? i mean, the guy was already making tons of money by sitting at a table and enjoy a few hours of card play, why the f**** did he need this?
) Hehe. Otherwise he would spend everything from 
