Showing posts with label Jackpot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jackpot. Show all posts

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Stick em' Up! Hand Over All the Chips!


Yesterday in Berlin, Germany, during a live poker tournament, a group of armed and masked men with machetes, automatic guns, and hand grenades were caught conducting a heist. It is being reported that the robbers escaped with as much as $1.1 million dollars of the tournament's jackpot, which was 1 million Euros ($1.36 million).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703936804575107940938833642.html?mod=WSJ_hp_editorsPicks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/06/german-poker-heist-armed-_n_488765.html
http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/berlin-poker-heist-captured-on-camera/19386707