Thieves Armed With Guns And Machetes, Rob High Stakes Poker Tournament For $1 Million On Live TV

First…know that EbenGregory tried to imagine what if feels like to be at a high stakes poker tournament playing for a million dollar pot on live TV and then 6 masked armed gun-man storm in to stick the joint up. And then…

EbenGregory was like…I’m sure I would’ve handled things a little different than these clowns. See the video of what not to do after the jump.

And just in case you’re wondering here’s the whole story via Thisis50.com: A masked gang armed with guns and a machete have stormed a German poker tournament in a luxury hotel – as it was broadcast on live television. Six men burst into the Grand Hyatt yesterday afternoon and stole around 800,000 euros. “Several masked, armed individuals entered the hotel and fled with a haul of money,” a police spokeswoman said. Several participants at the tournament in Berlin’s Grand Hyatt hotel were slightly injured as they panicked and fled during daring heist. There are no reports of serious injuries. One newspaper quoted witnesses as saying that the robbers were armed with automatic weapons, machetes and hand grenades.
An unarmed security guard confronted some of the attackers. He told a German newspaper that he was hit with a machete but managed to avoid serious injury by moving his head “so I wasn’t hurt too badly – but he caught me around the eye”. The guard then threw a pole and strongbox at the men as they filled bags with cash. “They pointed the gun at me and I got out of the way. They continued to fill their bags. As they ran off I managed to get one of them in a headlock. “As another guard came to help me the man with the machete returned so I had to let him go as I was not armed.” Witness Claudia Sommerey told Spiegel Online: “I saw three disguised men with rifles. Security tried to keep them at bay. I heard someone shouting ‘down, down, down’ so I got under one of the tables.” The jackpot for the tournament stood at euro1 million ($1.36 million), according to the European Poker Tour (EPT) website. The EPT confirmed the heist on a blog, saying there had been “an armed robbery executed by six men.” The tournament resumed four hours later.

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3 Comments

  1. JUST ME says:

    You can always find out who the robber of a hi stakes poker game is by finding out who lost the most money … im just saying

  2. brittany says:

    i thought if they had that much money around they would’ve had armed security.

  3. SimpleSouls says:

    $1.36 million and you have flashlight cops for protection??? That hotel and tournament got what they deserved.

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