The compromise forced officials to cancel Event 1 of the tournament, while dozens of uncompromised events were allowed to continue.
A phone registered to his name in Fayetteville was answered by a recording indicating it was no longer in service.īorgata senior vice president Joe Lupo said the first indication that anything was amiss came when his casino received a call from Harrah's, nearby it in the city's marina district, about a mile away from Atlantic City's Boardwalk.īorgata staff then checked the chips being used in the Borgata Winter Poker Open and found 160 of the counterfeit poker chips with a tournament value of 5,000, totaling 800,000, among the genuine casino chips. That, in turn, led authorities to a man they say sneaked fake chips into a poker tournament at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, prompting the cancellation of one of its events last week.Ĭhristian Lusardi, of Fayetteville, N.C., was arrested Friday at a motel in Atlantic City on charges including theft and rigging a public contest.
A clogged pipe at an Atlantic City casino hotel room led to the discovery of counterfeit poker chips with a tournament value of 2.7 million that had been flushed down a toilet.
