German gang heist nets a million at poker tournament

by Our Foreign Staff Published: 9:42AM GMT 07 March 2010

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Carsten Mueller, a military orator pronounced 4 robbers in disguises forced employees to palm over money, and afterwards managed to escape.

The kitty for the contest stood at €1 million ($1.36 million), according to a European Poker Tour Web site. The EPT reliable the heist on the event"s blog in an central statement, observant there had been "an armed spoliation executed by 6 men." It was misleading because the series differed from the military count.

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Olaf Wagner, a photographer for Germany"s Bild am Sonntag newspaper, was in the road house when the raid occurred.

He said: "I was at the opening to the gin rummy gymnasium when they stormed in.I saw 3 masked men struggling with security crew in the room where money is exchanged for chips.

"I saw one of the men seasoned mixture 500 euro records in to a backpack. A second pinned down a security ensure with a machete to his chest.

"As they ran one of the security men pulled a pirate to the ground. I couldn"t confirm if this was all a PR attempt or not; it seemed implausible to hold that it could be a genuine spoliation in the heart of Berlin in daylight.

"I got my camera ready. As the security ensure was on the building a road house page child came along and took the bag he had been carrying.I saw subsequent to the pirate was his gun, a revolver.

"As they onslaught the pirate calls for assistance and the others return. One of them has an dull potion bottle he waves in the face of the security man. They force him to recover their accomplice.

"Then I see them, unmasked, using in to the traveller filled selling centre. They left the road house by the puncture exit."

The contest organiser, the European Poker Tour (EPT), pronounced the raiders had probably been captivated by the one-million-euro esteem on suggest to the leader of the event. They did not contend how most was stolen.

A matter on their website called on any one with print or video footage of the spoliation to palm it over to the police.

The tournament, that German tennis fable Boris Becker took piece in earlier, resumed around 4 hours after the attack,