Aug 11, 2014 Gamblers sue Foxwoods Casino for $3 Million August 11, 2014 News by Kim Morrison Three gamblers have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Foxwoods Resort Casino, alleging that the Eastern Connecticut resort failed to pay $1.1 million in winnings along. How to Scam Casinos Successfully: Don’t Do This. Ivey had also already been sued by London casino Crockford’s in 2012 for the time he won £7.3 million ($11 million) playing punto banco.
I would like to see if I can sue an online casino for being rigged. I have proof that it is rigged. I tested this out by playing roulette. I would test it with a bankroll of $100. I would bet $1 for each game. If i bet the color red for 100 games, 80-90% would come out black. This happens vice versa. If I bet black for 100 games it would come out 80-90% red. This is obvisouly rigged and they claim to be random. I can test this out anytime anyday and it will give me the same results. Something must be done to these greedy people.
Less'>Don't know about your methodology for testing, but the answer is yes... you can sue an online casino. The question is what jurisdiction they are in, to determine proper court. That is a place to start.
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Sure, you can sue. The question is where? You will have to sue them wherever they are based. You probably agreed to their terms of use when you registered for the site and started playing. Those will also have an impact on your ability to sue, where you can sue, what you can sue for etc. Since you are a professional roulette player, I have to ask why you would continue to play when you know the game is rigged?
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Three gamblers have filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Foxwoods Resort Casino, alleging that the Eastern Connecticut resort failed to pay $1.1 million in winnings along with a $1.6 million deposit meant to cover losses. Foxwoods claims that they’ve refused to pay back the money because the three players cheated.
According to The Day, Chinese nationals Cheung Yin Sun of Las Vegas and Long Mei Fang and Zong Yang Li, both of Los Angeles, want the $2.7 million in winnings/deposit money plus “consequential” damages. The latter includes $100,000 for each plaintiff in civil rights violations along with $50,000 each for legal fees.
The lawsuit claims that the plaintiffs deposited $1.6 million at the Foxwoods on December 23rd of 2011. They then used an advantage-play method called “edge sorting” to make $1,148,000 in mini baccarat profits. The suit describes how edge sorting is legal through the following description:
Basically, edge sorting is possible because some brands of playing cards are not cut symmetrically across their backs and some players are gifted with eyesight keen enough to tell the difference.
The plaintiffs also speculate that Foxwoods dealers could have easily stopped the edge sorting by not turning the cards as requested by the players. Furthermore, if the dealers complied with these demands, all the while knowing that winnings would not be honored, this is illegal. Here’s another excerpt from the suit:
If Foxwoods and Foxwoods management knew that plaintiffs were edge sorting and let them practice their form of advantage play anyway – intending to keep their losses if they lost but not honor their winnings if they won – this would be intentional fraud.
Whether or not these three gamblers win their lawsuit may largely hinge on how poker pro Phil Ivey’s cases turn out. Ivey is currently being sued by the Borgata for $9.6 million, while he’s suing Crockfords Casino for over $12 million in two cases that center on edge sorting.
The 10-time WSOP champion essentially used the same techniques as the Chinese nationals to win. Crockfords ended up withholding his winnings after promising to wire the money following a bank holiday, only to review security footage and keep the fortune. The Borgata, on the other hand, did pay Ivey his winnings, but filed a lawsuit earlier this year seeking the return of $9.6 million. So both Ivey cases could set the precedent for how all future edge-sorting cases are decided.