Banned from WSOP forever

Banned Forever

Dumb shmuck

god I hate stupid people. I'm glad the guy got caught. This is why I always know what my stack is to the penny when I leave the table.

Apparently 2-time bracelet winner Thang Luu was unable to defend his $1,500 Limit Omaha H/L title for the 3rd straight year, because he was banned from the property for 1 year following an altercation with a dealer during a 2009 WSOP Cash Game.

lol,lol,i want to say it too.........

What a fool that guy was. This is why I allways count my stack b4 I leave 4 the break.

What good is that? How are you gonna prove it when you get back and half your stack is gone? Is there usually a system in place whereby you have the dealer confirm it before you step out?

What happened? I didn't hear about this. He is like 2nd all-time Omaha HL casher.

Greedy bastard...guess winning the pot just wasn't enough...ROFL..

Stupid cheating twit. Hope his name goes out to all the cardrooms.

#1023 – 2010 WSOP #4 – Seen and Heard at the Series #4 – Banned Forever


Posted by mcraig | Filed under 2010 WSOP, 2010 WSOP - Seen & Heard at the Series, Jack Effel
How do you get banned for life from the World Series of Poker? According to Tournament Director Jack Effel, “You don’t take someone else’s chips.” This is apparently what happened to the player who escorted from the Amazon Room during the third level of play in the $1,000 NLHE on Saturday afternoon.
Several players at our table noticed a fiftyish-looking man with gray hair, wearing a baseball cap, being escorted from the Amazon room by three Harrah’s security guards. The player in seat one asked Jack Effel, when he walked by a half-hour later, what happened to the guy, “so I don’t do the same thing.”
Jack explained that Baseball Cap was in a hand with another player when the announcement came that level 2 had ended and the 20-minute break was starting. As is usually the case, the players not in the hand got up and left the table. The two remaining players played out the hand and our culprit happened to win it. As the dealer pushed the pot his way and he started raking it in, he just pulled the chips in with one hand. He set his other hand down in the spot next to him as if he was using it for leverage to lean forward to pull in the chips. In fact, he placed that hand over a stack of chips of the player next to him (who had left the table like all the others for break). As he was pulling in the pot with one hand, he noticed the dealer’s eyes move off him and at that moment pulled in the chips that were underneath his other hand. To the naked eye it just looked like he was pulling in the chips with both hands.
I don’t know whether the adjacent player returned and noticed the missing chips or if this was discovered some other way, but a look at the tape confirmed it and the offending player was gone.
Jack Effel concluded the explanation by saying, “He’ll be banned from the World Series forever.”
AKPC_IDS += "3275,";Popularity: 100% [?]

How do you get banned for life from the World Series of Poker? According to Tournament Director Jack Effel, “You don’t take someone else’s chips.” This is apparently what happened to the player who escorted from the Amazon Room during the third level of play in the $1,000 NLHE on Saturday afternoon.
Several players at our table noticed a fiftyish-looking man with gray hair, wearing a baseball cap, being escorted from the Amazon room by three Harrah’s security guards. The player in seat one asked Jack Effel, when he walked by a half-hour later, what happened to the guy, “so I don’t do the same thing.”
Jack explained that Baseball Cap was in a hand with another player when the announcement came that level 2 had ended and the 20-minute break was starting. As is usually the case, the players not in the hand got up and left the table. The two remaining players played out the hand and our culprit happened to win it. As the dealer pushed the pot his way and he started raking it in, he just pulled the chips in with one hand. He set his other hand down in the spot next to him as if he was using it for leverage to lean forward to pull in the chips. In fact, he placed that hand over a stack of chips of the player next to him (who had left the table like all the others for break). As he was pulling in the pot with one hand, he noticed the dealer’s eyes move off him and at that moment pulled in the chips that were underneath his other hand. To the naked eye it just looked like he was pulling in the chips with both hands.
I don’t know whether the adjacent player returned and noticed the missing chips or if this was discovered some other way, but a look at the tape confirmed it and the offending player was gone.
Jack Effel concluded the explanation by saying, “He’ll be banned from the World Series forever.”
AKPC_IDS += "3275,";

Dang...he's lucky that's all that happened to him - or was it? lol

Bullishwwd.... Thanks much for the effort, and the linked worked for me, no problem. But I was asking SMD173 what happened to Thang Luu last year. I don't believe this is related to the new article.

It's amazing sometimes at what some people will stoop to.

geez, and he just won a pot lol...wtf

I posted this over at the WSOP Fantasy Thread... dude's a complete moron. Thievery doesn't pay.

what a joke...i mean come one doesnt he know there are cameras everywhere..and thats such a frickin gutsy thing to do man.

Well, you are in casino, so there should be cameras. And for the record, I've never had any of my chips stolen while away on break.

Counting your ships is always a good idea, not only because of potential theft but because the staff can make mistakes while coloring up the chips. While this is pretty rare, it did happen once to a guy sitting on my left at a final table. They ran the "eye in the sky" tapes but his stack was blocked by the floor's back.

Everyone was getting really impatient--the players, the dealer and especially the floor--but the guy was really adamant that he was short t5K. I really like and trust him so I believed him. Finally I suggested that they count all the chips at the table which should equal the amount of chips that had been in play from the start of the tourney, give or take a small round up from the race. Seemed like a no brainer to me. Sure enough, the table was short t5K; he was given his chips and play resumed.

What was really funny was that the floor then accused the dealer (a very good looking woman) of distracting him while he was coloring up. We all had a pretty good laugh over that one.

What a moron!
He must know they are watching!
Big Brother is everywhere in Vegas!

True, but I've heard the camera monitors cover many tables at a time. The playback is always there, but often someone catches them in the act, reports it, and the camera confirms it. No doubt it's an isolated incident, but I'd be nervous about leaving a big stack unattended. I'd at least want to throw a piece of tinfoil or something over it to protect it.

If you have a problem keeping track of your ships.. then I think you have too many ships.

True, true Mortis...
still, I think everyone knows what I meant!

I hadn't heard about it until I read this on PokerNews at the beginning of the Omaha tourney yesterday.

It's Day 3 of the 2010 World Series of Poker. That means it's time for the first event that doesn't have any no-limit hold'em -- Event #4, $1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo. With the Pavilion Room jammed full of players in Day 1b of Event 3, our start today is taking place in the Blue and Red Sections of the Amazon Room.
This event was won in 2009 -- and in 2008! -- by Thang Luu. Luu also finished 2nd in 2007 for one of the most impressive three-year runs that anyone can remember. It won't be four years. Luu was involved in an altercation with a dealer in the cash games at the 2009 WSOP. The fallout was that he was barred from the property for one year. That ban is still in effect and so Luu is not in the field today.

lmao!! what a tool y risk it

Thanks! Well, that might explain why the good folks at FT snubbed him once again from the Fantasy picks. Thang Luu was alltime O8 winner until Clements surpassed him this year.

i do this as well...i generallly stay till the chips are colored up as well.

wow i didnt realize they could ban someone for life from the WSOP. I thought they could only remove you from the tourny he was in

You just can't fix stupid! I hope he get's charged too, not just banned.

The only way u can prove it is by askin the casino to go over the CCTV.

LOL, man what a fool.
Dealers should keep an eye on that kind of behaviour. well he got banned from wsop, he deserves it.

Good. I hope he never has a tourney cash or winning session of poker ever again.

Hahaha, he was gonna be in that last hand no matter if there were 3 raises and he had 7 2.

Yeah that is gutsy. I am willing to bet he has done that before. Im sure he didnt have much time to sit there and think about what he was gonna do and how he was gonna do it. He seen the opportunity and it worked before so why not now.

Haha what a greedy douche.... Like a few extra chips would actually make THAT much difference in the outcome of his tournament.. Good thing he got caught. This makes me wonder how many players have gotten away with this type of behavior in the past; Or if this particular baseball cap has gotten away with similar actions... People these days...

im glad he got banned, an example should be made him!