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Borgata using High-Tech Poker Chips – But Don’t Count on this Being an Industry Norm

2014 started out terribly for the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Their Borgata Winter Open event was famously rocked by scandal, when Christian Lusardi used counterfeit chips in a $2 million guaranteed poker tournament. Thankfully, Lusardi was busted after he flushed 180 chips down a hotel toilet. But the scandal has still plagued the Borgata […]

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Players vs. Borgata in Lawsuit over Tournament Chip Scandal – Who will win?

Back in January, Christian Lusardi attempted one of the biggest cons in poker history when he introduced $800,000 worth of counterfeit chips into a Borgata Winter Open tournament. And even today, we’re still dealing with the reverberations of Lusardi’s misguided actions since a lawsuit has been leveled at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa. Jacob […]

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Do Lusardi and Pelton Chip Incidents Spell Trouble for Poker?

Several weeks ago, Christian Lusardi attempted to pull off one of the biggest cheating scandals in poker tournament history. He used 160 counterfeit chips worth $5k each in a $2m guaranteed Borgata Winter Open event. Lusardi was eventually caught when he tried to get rid of the evidence by flushing another 540 chips down a […]

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