2010 March 07 Poker News, Events and Happenings
DEREK SCALLY in BerlinTHE CAMERAS were rolling when the heist began, but this was no Hollywood caper.The high-rollers game was well under way at the European Poker tournament in Berlin on Satur…
BERLIN, March 8 Masked gunmen stormed an upmarket hotel in Berlin on Saturday and forced staff working at a poker tournament there to hand over money, police said. There was a little panic among guests during the hold-up at the Grand Hyatt in the central Potsdamer Platz square, during which some were slightly injured, a police spokesman said. He declined to confirm media reports said the …
THE hunt is on across Europe for the gangsters with machine guns and machetes who made off with nearly 200,000 after storming a poker tournament in Berlin this weekend.
BERLIN - GERMAN police said on Sunday they were hunting a masked, machete-wielding gang that staged a brazen raid on a million-euro poker tournament in broad daylight at one of Berlin’s swankiest hotels. In what some media have dubbed an ‘Ocean’s 11′ style heist, four men brandishing handguns and machetes stormed into Berlin’s Grand Hyatt hotel on Saturday and made off with hundreds of thousands …
A DRAMATIC video shows the moment armed robbers raided a million-euro ($1.5 million) poker tournament in Berlin.
On April 4th, Full Tilt Poker and PokerGives.org will team up for a $5+$5 charity tournament. Half of each player’s buy-in will build the tournament’s prize pool, while the other half will be donated to charity through PokerGives.org.
As reported yesterday, up to six armed gunmen robbed the Grand Hyatt Hotel’s casino during the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) stop at Berlin. While nobody was seriously hurt, the incident caused havoc, as the thieves made away with a portion of the EPT High-Roller tournament prize money.
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