Armed Robbers Storm Poker Tournament on Live TV - Over 1m Euro

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BERLIN — A heavily armed group stormed a poker tournament in a German luxury hotel Saturday afternoon and made off with a jackpot, a police spokesman said.

Several participants at the tournament in Berlin's Grand Hyatt hotel were slightly injured when they panicked and fled following the daring afternoon heist, Carsten Mueller said.

Mueller said four robbers in disguises forced employees to hand over money, and then managed to escape. Mueller declined to give details, including how much money the men got away with.

The jackpot for the tournament stood at euro1 million ($1.36 million), according to a European Poker Tour Web site. The EPT confirmed the heist on the event's blog in an official statement, saying there had been "an armed robbery executed by six men." It was unclear why the number differed from the police count.

The B.Z. daily quoted witnesses as saying that the robbers were armed with automatic weapons, machetes and hand grenades.

Mueller declined to comment on the weapons, citing the ongoing investigation.

German news website Spiegel Online quoted witness Claudia Sommerey as saying that panic spread in the room at the five-star hotel in downtown Berlin.

Sommerey told Spiegel Online she hid under a table. "I saw three disguised men with rifles," she was quoted as saying.

The tournament was organized by the European Poker Tour, which calls it the biggest such event in Germany. The tournament was to be continued in the late afternoon.

Bit mad if I may say so myself.

silvervixen84

There's a thread about this over in the Poker forum, but still, scary stuff for the participants

rednik

Texas hold em up.:D

rednik

rednik wrote: »

Texas hold em up.:D

Damn it.. I even tried to think of a pun and couldn't Such an amateur..

rgt320q

Sounds like it'd make a deadly movie. I can hear the tagline already; "In a world where the stakes are high..."

tommyboy2222

Oceans Vier

Tech3

I would have been in tears it if happened to me






.............. a pair of aces and then those f""kers come in ..... pffftt!

Savage Tyrant

tech2 wrote: »

I would have been in tears it if happened to me






.............. a pair of aces and then those f""kers come in ..... pffftt!

You should have gone in all guns blazing with pocket aces!

*cough*

I'll get my coat!

dubtom

Whats the bet it's a story line in CSI Miami soon.

Que The Who

Tail Wagger

Was that the same Tournament our very own Tony Cascarino
Was playing in. He was on the Telly last Saturday night telling viewers he was off to a big poker game in, I think Germany this weekend?

Sharpshooter

I bet this was posted in another Forum, OP.

Ohh Look.

Cards on the table,I win.:eek: