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Las Vegas has been portrayed in many movies as a place for some of the biggest robberies in American history. Casino robbery has known a significant growth lately. A string of robberies have plagued Montana casinos all year. More recently, attempts were made in other states.
Friday morning, the robbery scenario played out in real life as a Las Vegas casino was hit.
The Las Vegas Hilton Hotel and Casino was subject to a robbery, as two robbers took bags of money from the sportsbook and fled, presumably with a third person as a getaway driver.
Two men wearing motorcycle helmets and covered from head to toe walked into the sportsbook at 6:00 A.M. holding handguns. They ordered the employees at the betting window to fill bags of money, and then they were gone.
Las Vegas Police Lt. Clint Nichols said authorities also were looking for a third person believed to driven a getaway car from the 6 a.m. heist at the Las Vegas Hilton Race and Sportsbook.
Nichols said several gamblers witnessed the robbery at the casino located just east of the Las Vegas Strip and known for its large sports betting operation.
As quickly as they came in through a back door, they vanished. The whole period of time took less than a minute, according to Las Vegas Police Lt. Clint Nichols. They jumped into the getaway car and have yet to be found.
Nichols does not have any leads in the case and is wary that the felons might not be caught. “They were quick,” he said, “We have nothing.” The sportsbook was left to pick up the pieces.
It was not revealed exactly how much money was taken in the heist. Nichols and Hilton spokesman Ira Sternberg would not disclose how much money was stolen from the casino.
The good news was that nobody was injured in the robbery. Sternberg said the sportsbook was reopened within a couple of hours of the incident. He was not aware of any previous robberies at the casino.
Investigators have no leads. Perhaps questioning will start with how the personnel operating the omnipresent camera system carried by all Vegas casinos didn’t find patrons walking through the casino wearing helmets to be suspicious.

An Irish card player from Claregalway has written his name in the poker record books after he cashed out for almost €1 million in a prestigious tournament in Spain.

Fintan Gavin, aged 40, won €900,000 for finishing in an impressive second place in a field of 620 players at the €8,000 entry European Poker Tour (EPT) event in Barcelona.

He almost outlasted a field of 620 players in the event, but was eventually eliminated following a brief head-to-head battle with the winner, a German professional Sebastian Ruthenberg.

The two players negotiated a deal which netted Mr Gavin a total payout of just over €900,000, while the winner took home the EPT trophy and €1,361,000 in prize money.

Mr. Gavin currently works in the poker business in the northwest, where he runs poker events in the Eglinton Casino in Galway and the surrounding area.

Like many of the big winners in the world of poker in recent years, Mr Gavin qualified for the event by winning a small online satellite tournament, the prize for which was a €12,000 package to cover his entry fee and travel costs.

“I never thought going over there I would get anywhere near as far as I did. There were 620 players taking part, including the top poker players in Europe. It was something else to reach the final table,” he said.

Despite his big pay-day, he said he was not considering taking up the game professionally and would continue organising rather than competing in events.

Fintan Gavin is one of many Irish poker players to have made a big impact on the poker scene in recent years.

Belfast player Marty Smyth won a $10,000 entry pot-limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in July, for which he received $859,532 (€600,000).

Ireland has produced one world champion poker player. In 1999, prior to the boom in the popularity of the game, which was brought about by the advent of online and televised poker, Dublin businessman Noel Furlong conquered a field of 393 in the World Series of Poker main event winning $1 million (€695,000).

Dublin-based player Andrew Black became a familiar face in international poker circles when he made his way to the final table of the World Series of Poker main event in 2005. He eventually finished fifth out of 5,619 players, winning $1.75 million (€1.3 million) and has since continued to perform well in big poker events.

A new website called www.ExpertBet.com is drawing the attention of all of the United Kingdom’s punters and tipsters worldwide as it introduces free betting contests regarding English Premiere League.

Newcomers can take this great opportunity to win prizes up to £775 in cash until December, 24 2008. Taking part in these contests is free of charge and all punters do not stake or risk anything of value other than their personal efforts of knowledge and their personal time.

Founded by Win at Max Associates LLC the www.ExpertBet.com is the newest website world wide available which offers cash money-prizes without no fees registration to its users, after the big brother’s website has arrived 2 years ago www.TipsterPicks.com which gave more than $US 2000 lately to many tipsters world wide.

An ExpertBet representative commented “We’re making history here at www.ExpertBet.com by rewarding all football fans out there, hosting the biggest free football contest worldwide available for the greatest football league in the world England Premiere League. These excellent treatments are exciting and we’re very much looking forward to bigger prizes in the future.”

There are two kinds of contests at www.expertbet.com.

1. The monthly contest brings money prize £55 in cash to the best punter who earned the most profit units in the monthly punters’ classification. Punters have to place at least 15 bet tickets in the current month in at least 2 different weeks (Monday to Sunday). The end of the current month profit must be at least 5.55 units. All monthly cash prizes (£55) will be paid in the 5th day of the next month. Any disputes or complaints will be accepted until the 4th of the next month.
2. The Expert Bet contest brings money prize £555 in cash to the best punter who earned the most profit units until the fixtures from the Saturday 20th December 2008. Punters have to place at least 55 bet tickets in the 4 months period (September to December 2008) in at least 7 different weeks (Monday to Sunday). The end of the current period profit must be at least 25.5 units. For this contest any disputes or complaints will be accepted anytime until the 24th December 2008, 12:00 GMT.

For both contests stakes are set to 1 (one) unit as default. Punters can place from the entire betting offer only “single” bet tickets not combo or system. The betting offer is with Asian Handicap and Over/Under odds. The latest time when punters can place a bet ticket on a specific event is 25-30 minutes before schedule starting time. If there is more than one winner, the prize will be equally split between the winners.

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