Earlier this week the Bellagio Hotel & Casino was robbed when a gunman walked in and held a craps table at gunpoint. The gunman walked out of the casino with $1.5 million. The problem? He took $1.5 million in poker chips.<\/p>\n
Now I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever walked into a store and tried to pay for your groceries or a new pair of shoes with poker chips, but it\u2019s just not the same thing as money at all! Basically, the robber got away with a whole pile of plastic. The chips were valued between $100 and $25,000 and the only way he\u2019s going to get the money is if he actually shows his face in the Bellagio to cash in. If it was smaller-value chips it might be easier for him to sneak in or send in an accomplice to cash in for him. However, it will be a little bit suspicious if someone comes in to cash a pile of $25,000 chips when nobody has been winning that kind of money in the casino all night.<\/p>\n
According to Las Vegas police, the robber at the Bellagio is suspected to be the same man who robbed the Suncoast poker room and got away with $20,000 in cash, which is still an impressive sum to steal from a casino. The very idea that he was able to walk out with $1.5 million (even if it was in chips) is impressive enough that a lot of gamblers are calling the heist \u201cOcean\u2019s 14\u201d. However, only time will tell if the thief will ever see a dollar of his stolen loot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Earlier this week the Bellagio Hotel & Casino was robbed when a gunman walked in and held a craps table at gunpoint. The gunman walked out of the casino with $1.5 million. The problem? He took $1.5 million in poker chips. Now I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever walked into a store and tried to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[202,278,11,279,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}