Poker777

[dittle]

It was great to see them all come together to help the left behind son of this man be able to afford to finish his studies, and it is just yet another example and display of just how great poker players and big casinos can work together and work for a good cause, Everyday with actions like this happening the old stereotype of greedy poker players and casinos is being knocked out of place and hopefully one day everyone will see them for who they really are instead of just branding them all as being the same all because of a few bad greedy seeds that may be there in the industry here and there, it will hopefully get more people to start to see and think of the gambling industry in a whole new light for once. Will be nice to see the industry getting some recognition for the good things that they do for once instead of just the bad.

[DhD]

I think that it is really beautiful that they are paying tribute to their departed employee who was taken away from the world whilst just doing his every day job, for no real reasons at all, he was an innocent person who was just working at the wrong place at the wrong time. Being that the incident that ultimately ended in the death of this employee having had taken place in a joint part of the casinos control room i do have to wonder who it was that killed him? Was it another employee? What exactly went down for this man to be killed? Robbery or something like that gone wrong or something? My curiosity has now been peaked lol so if anyone knows the full details of that please tell us all so we can get the whole background of the event that has bought this tournament along.

[wisewords]

Yes it was good to see them do this for a deceased employees family, great to see that they actually still care about the family of this employee even though he is no longer physically in this world. Some, be it many, employers out there would probably just say how tragic it was that this kind of thing happened and then that would be the end of it, they would just go on their every day business as though nothing ever happened. This is the kind of thing that shows the true hearts of gold that poker players and casinos and the gambling industry itself does actually have that many people just fail to see, it's there, always has been, people just choose to see what they want to see rather than what the reality is.

[leimo]

What i know of the event that ended with the slaying of the employee is this:
The employee, whose name was not immediately released, was a shift manager who had been with the casino since the day it opened in 1990.

"He was the loveliest human being you ever want to meet," said Mark Juliano, CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which runs the casino. "He didn't have an enemy in the world."

Juliano said there did not appear to be a dispute between the victim and the shooter, whose identity also wasn't immediately disclosed.

The worker was shot three to four times in a nonpublic office just off the casino floor, Juliano said. He was taken to a medical center, where he died several hours later following surgery.

The shooter was not a casino employee, Juliano said.

The casino shut its table games down Wednesday evening and sent home workers assigned there.

Police said they recovered the gun used in the shooting after arresting the suspect in a parking garage.

It was the second incident involving a gunshot at the casino this year.

On Jan. 30, a suspect in a New York embezzlement case pulled a gun and threatened to kill himself in an office there, sparking an 11-hour standoff that included his accidentally firing a shot before he surrendered.

In that incident, the man, from Coram, N.Y., was being sought by New York authorities who had tracked him to the casino and were escorting him into a security office.

During questioning, the man pulled out a handgun. A police officer pushed him into a holding cell and locked the door.

[destined]

-A regular casino visitor, having just shot and mortally wounded a worker at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort, planned to kill himself in a parking garage but was stopped by police, a casino executive said. Mark Juliano, CEO of Trump Entertainment Resorts, which runs the casino, said Thursday the shooter had no previous beef with supervisor Raymond Kot, who had been with the Taj Mahal since it opened in 1990.Juliano told The Associated Press that Mark Magee was carrying a suicide note and had intended to shoot himself or jump from the parking garage Wednesday afternoon but surrendered meekly when police apprehended him. "It's too bad he didn't do it first," Juliano said. "He was obviously an extremely disturbed, sick individual."The contents of the note weren't revealed by authoritie Magee also sent a letter to WABC sister station WPVI prior to the killing. In the letter Magee, 57, of Norristown, Pa., repeatedly accuses the Atlantic City casinos of cheating, and suggests they are rigged to favor the gambling halls. Nowhere in the letter, dated May 25th, does Magee reference Ray Kot, who he shot and killed. "It appears to have been something he contemplated doing, not particularly to Ray, but to a casino employee in general," Juliano said.But why? Juliano is asking himself that question, along with many others. There were no initial indications Magee was in debt to the casino or had any bad experiences there, he added.Juliano said it's ironic that Kot, who played the peacemaker countless times with rowdy or disruptive customers, died so violently, shot three or four times in the abdomen with bullets designed to inflict maximum damage.Kot was shot in an office just off the casino floor, an area not visible to patrons. He died about 2 1/2 hours later at a medical center after undergoing surgery.Court documents charged Magee with using hollow-point bullets, which are illegal in New Jersey