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A little weird the police are telling people to fight.
 
aiw said:
Sounds like there will be a retrial.
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Good. I can't believe they didn't convict him after about 10 seconds of deliberating after seeing the video.
 
I think I posted about this before, after the earlier court decision. Phil Ivey is being forced to pay back $10 million in gambling winnings because he used skill in what is intended to be a game of chance. The whole setup was made for Hollywood and will probably be made into a movie or miniseries:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/mor ... dge-rules/

Sun had spent, according to the New York Times magazine, hundreds of hours memorizing tiny flaws in purple Gemaco Borgata playing cards. (Card manufacturer Gemaco, listed in the lawsuit, did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post early Tuesday.) As she told the magazine in June, her motivation was not out of overwhelming loss — Sun claimed to have blown $20 million inherited from her father — but from time spent in jail for failing to repay a debt to MGM casino.

“Women attacked me, and the guards wouldn’t let me wear my own underwear,” she said to the Times in June. “I lost 25 pounds in jail and didn’t get out until a relative flew here with $100,000 for the casino. I decided that one day I would get back the money by playing at MGM properties.”

She purchased souvenir playing cards from the Borgata, identical to the ones used on the casino floor save for holes punched in the center. She discovered that patterns on card backs, designed to be symmetrical, were not perfectly so. Sun trained herself to identify aberrations along the left or right margins of the card backs, no wider than 1/32 of an inch, the Times reported. (“Sun’s mental acumen in distinguishing the minute differences in the patterns on the back of the playing cards is remarkable,” Hillman noted.) So prepared, she helped Ivey on his way to millions.

The technique Ivey and Sun used was called edge-sorting. Sun was allowed to peek at the card before the dealer flipped it over. In Mandarin, she would ask the dealer to rotate the most valuable cards in the baccarat deck — the sixes through nines — 180 degrees as they were flipped. The automatic shuffler could randomize the cards, but would not alter their rotation.

“Baccarat is a casino game well known for unique and superstitious rituals,” Hillman noted in an October opinion. “Thus, Sun telling the dealer to turn a card in a certain way did not raise any red flags for Borgata.”

With the deck sorted, it was possible for Sun to identify which cards had been rotated. The pair therefore knew the values of the cards while they were being dealt, before completing bets. Ivey adjusted his bets, and once the pair edge-sorted the entire deck, he increased his bids to the maximum allowed.
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He should be allowed to keep the money. The casino agreed to his requests and they lost. Total bullshit.
 
5 already confirmed dead in shooting in Fort Lauderdale airport.

NBC just said the shooter appeared to be young, in his 20s, and wearing a Star Wars shirt. So the most important detail: 70% chance of white, 25% chance of Asian, 5% chance of other.

Not sure which race I'm rooting for this to be. If white, more discussion about mental health, but a ton of liberals making a big fuss about it. If black, more discussion about gun control, but a ton of conservatives making a big fuss about it. If Muslim, Trump gets 8 years as President. If Asian, Trump puts out another negative tweet about China, driving us closer to nuclear war with them. I feel like that's the worst one for sure.
 
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