No.
The point was to relate an interesting story, and to point out that a few
casino employees, even hosts, can turn out to be thieves. Very unusual, but
it does happen!
For me, the most disturbing part of the story is that she was immediately
able to get another host job, and then another, even after being fired for
good cause!
Brian
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In a message dated 8/17/2009 8:55:04 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
belairgold@aol.com writes:
Can we get a name, even by private email?-
-- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, bjaygold@... wrote:
About ten years ago, a host at the Orleans drained the points from the
account of a high roller who had not been around for several months,
created
an account for her boyfriend, and moved those points (I think it was
around
$5000 worth) into that new account. Unfortunately for her, the player
showed up shortly afterward, and demanded to know what had happened to
his
account. She was caught and fired, but not charged with a crime.
Shortly afterward, she was hired as a host at the Hard Rock. She was
fired
from there for getting naked in a limo with a VIP. Since then she has
moved
on to become a host at Texas Station. I don't know if she still works
there. I'm sure some of you know the host I'm talking about.The vast majority of casino employees are honest and trustworthy
people.
However, the screening process they go through in order to qualify for
hiring is mostly looking for felony convictions. Less than honest people
who
have managed to avoid one of those can and do work in responsible
positions in
casinos, so be careful!
There was a recent discussion here about letting other people see your
PIN
at a kiosk or retail outlet. This is another situation where I
recommend
caution. There are dishonest people who hang around casinos, looking
for
opportunities to steal from bigger players. If one of these people sees
your
PIN, he can then later "keep an eye" on you, waiting for the chance to
grab
your player's card, like during a restroom break, or if you are
distracted
while playing a machine, or if you happen to forget your card in the
machine when you quit playing.In these days of identity theft, safeguarding your personal information
is
always a good idea. I've noticed that many businesses, like doctors'
offices (and some casino player's clubs!), use date-of-birth as an
identity
check, so I'd be careful disclosing that piece of information as well.
Brian
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In a message dated 8/17/2009 4:01:31 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
Marksalot300@... writes:The first URL got truncated. Took me a few minutes but I found the
article,
here's another link to it:
_http://tinyurl.com/nu2vcy_ (http://tinyurl.com/nu2vcy)And while I'm at it, here's another interesting article - an op-ed by
columnist George Will on the issue of Internet poker:
_http://tinyurl.com/og6bax_ (http://tinyurl.com/og6bax)- Brian in MI
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