The long wait is finally over as the 2014 WSOP is under way in Las Vegas (the first bracelet winner should be announced shortly here on the news section)! Unfortunately, some poker pros onsite have had a nightmare start to the increadible tournament series as laptops, cash and other items have been stolen from their rooms at the Rio All-Suite Las Vegas Hotel in the past 2-3 days.
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Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (F)
Posts: 2261
Looks like a perfect opportunity for criminals,lots of young people with lots of cash,always have valuable electronics and even better you can just look online and find out where they are and what their schedule is!!
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 2688
Yep this is gonna sucks remembered the last time there was an event and there was theft going all around and this is going to brings negativity to the poker world and people will start not coming to the tournament like the pros and so on. Because the thief are targeting themselves because they have the money. The organizers should tighten the security!
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 10090
well that is some sh1tty security to be honest- it seems that hotels room doors are open to everyone who wants to borrow even some used toilet paper (where the hell are hotel cams?). lol @ stealing laptop and then returning it... probably they attached a sticker on laptop "Trojan Virus Inside"
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 7371
This is never a nice thing to happen to anyone and i hope that they catch the person responsible.Its bad enough losing at the tables but to have your stuff stolen is the lowest of the low
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
Such large events always attract all sort of scammers and cons into play, it's innevitable...
The only difference can be made by good security that can prevent most of these events or not. I do not think these events will affect the games though.
