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too many wives that cause the problem he is facing now.

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saw his picture on the papers. i thought it was a gone man already.

he's already 89.

*晚报记者凌晨探究竟　大筹码果然缺货
*歹徒如何利用假筹码诈财？
*云顶世界：已交警方处理
*两赌场采防范措施

疑假筹码流入赌场　云顶世界回收500及1000元筹码

疑大量假筹码流入赌场，圣淘沙云顶世界收回所有500元和1000元的筹码，赌客怨声载道。

圣淘沙云顶世界4天前出乎意料地，在短短几个小时回收所有500元和1000元的大面额筹码。由于事出突然，引起赌客哗然。

赌场常客王先生（40岁，商人）说，他在上星期六下午大约3时，发现在博彩大厅各赌桌的荷官，开始低调回收所有的大额筹码，不再找换给顾客，改发小面值的100元码，引起顾客很大的不便。

他说，一些下注较大的赌客， 比如有1万元赌本，原本只须带10枚千元大码，现在则得带100枚，自然感到不满。有些赌客还当场和工作人员理论，引起一阵小骚动。

众人议论纷纷，猜测赌场为什么要这么做？据了解，圣淘沙云顶世界筹码有多种面额，有5元、10元、25元和100元等等，最常用的面值是25和100的。

据赌客传出，他们怀疑可能有大量的500元和1000元的假筹码流入赌场，数目肯定可观。

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* Evening News probe whether the big bargaining chip really am out of stock
* How to use the fake chips Zhacai criminals?
* Genting World: Police have been submitted
* Preventive measures taken two casinos

Genting Casino chips into the suspected fake 500 and 1,000 world recovery chips

Casino chips into the large number of false suspect, Sentosa Genting World back 500 yuan and 1,000 yuan for all chips, gamblers complaining.

Sentosa Genting World 4 days ago unexpectedly, in a few hours to recall all 500 yuan and 1,000 yuan for a large denomination chips. Because suddenly, causing an uproar gamblers.

Casino regulars Wang (40 years old, businessmen), said he last Saturday afternoon at about 3 pm, found the tables in the gambling hall, the dealers began to recall all of the large low-key chips are no longer looking for a customer, change 100 rounds of small face value of the code, causing great inconvenience to the customer.

He says some gamblers bet big, like a 1 million bet on this, only with 10 thousand original large size, and now have to take 100, the natural discontent. Some gamblers and staff on the spot theory, caused a small stir.

People talking about the speculation casino why? It is understood that a variety of Sentosa Genting World chip denominations, 5 yuan, 10 yuan, 25 yuan and 100 yuan, and so, the most common face value is 25 and 100.

According to gamblers came, they suspect there may be a large number of 500 yuan and 1,000 yuan in fake chips into the casino, the number certainly impressive.

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SINGAPORE - Marina Bay Sands (MBS) chief executive officer Thomas Arasi has quit his job to "take a breather" and spend more time with his family.

Mr Arasi, who is in his early 50s, will resign with effect from Tuesday - some 18 months after he took up the role.

In an internal memo seen by MediaCorp, Mr Arasi said: "At this point, I have decided to pause, take a breather and spend more time with my daughter and other family."

He added: "Therefore, I will be resigning my position effective Feb 1, 2011. I will undertake my regular duties on site through Feb 18."

An MBS spokesperson confirmed Mr Arasi's departure when contacted by MediaCorp.

Quoting an unnamed person "with direct knowledge of the situation", Dow Jones Newswires reported that Mr Arasi had faced "a lot of pressure" with MBS' opening in April last year and from the Singapore Casino Regulatory Authority. The source added that Mr Arasi's lack of casino experience further complicated matters.

Dow Jones pointed out that his departure follows the sacking in July of Mr Steve Jacobs, chief executive of the Las Vegas Sands' (LVS) Hong Kong-listed subsidiary, Sands China, which runs casinos and resorts in Macau.

Mr Arasi was appointed the first president and CEO of MBS in August 2009.

In October last year, MBS reported net revenue of US$485.9 million ($622 million) in its first full quarter of operation. LVS chairman Sheldon Adelson said then that MBS' earnings before taxes, depreciation and amortisation was the best first quarter ever for any of Sands' resorts. Ryan Huang

http://www.todayonline.com/Business/EDC110129-0000217/MBS-CEO-quits

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o, very very interesting. 

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South Korean missing after casino visit
NUS research fellow was last seen at Marina Bay Sands by his colleague on Feb 22
By Jalelah Abu Baker


A 35-YEAR-OLD South Korean man, last seen by his friend at the Marina Bay Sands casino, has been missing for 16 days.

Dr Lee Pan Seop, a research fellow at the Centre for Governance, Institutions and Organisations in the National University of Singapore (NUS), was last seen at about 3am on Feb 22 by his close friend, housemate and colleague Shim Jung Wook.

On that day, the two, along with other friends, had visited the casino and then separated to play different games.

Dr Shim said when he wanted to go home hours later, he looked for Dr Lee but could not find him. Over the next six days, Dr Lee did not show up at the flat they shared or at work.

Dr Shim then sought help from the Korean Embassy, whose staff advised him to report the matter to the police, which he did on Feb 28. The consular section of the embassy told The Straits Times that it has contacted the single man's brother in South Korea.

The chances of Dr Lee having left the country are slim as once a person is reported missing, officers at any checkpoint would be alerted to keep a lookout for the person.

While he did not want to comment on the regularity of Dr Lee's casino visits, Dr Shim said: 'I can tell you that that was not his first time there.'

He implied that Dr Lee might have incurred big losses at the casino.

'There are many people who go missing in casinos overseas after going bankrupt,' he said.

While Dr Lee may not have cash on him, he had his casino membership card, Dr Shim said.

There are different tiers of the card, and the most basic involves a free sign-up. Members can use the card to accumulate gaming points and 'dollars', which can be used in the casino and participating outlets, such as eateries, in the shopping centre.

A spokesman for NUS said it is assisting with police investigations and declined to comment on whether Dr Lee's absence at work will affect his job status.

Dr Lee holds a PhD in business administration from Korea University.

The centre he works in deals with industry-related and research work, including surveys and research on issues relating to corporate governance and organisations.

Marina Bay Sands would say only that it is supporting the police in its investigations.

Dr Shim said he is certain that his countryman will turn up at the casino again.

'He may have already gone there two or three more times since he went missing,' he said, adding that he himself had gone to the casino a few times in the hope of tracking him down.

Dr Lee was last seen wearing a purple cotton jacket, light brown trousers and black shoes. He is 1.67m tall, fair and has medium-length hair.

Anyone with information may call the police hotline on 1800-255-0000.

via : http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?t=87356

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MinMin:

S'pore retiree gambles at Resorts World for six straight days



A Singaporean retiree spends six days straight gambling at RWS. (Yahoo! photo)

A Singaporean retiree spent six days straight gambling at the tables of Resorts World casino last month.

That includes going without showers or change of clothes for her marathon casino sessions, as well as just "coffee and Milo" to keep her going. After all, she slept roughly just four hours a day during her gambling binge.

The New Paper reports that Madam Alice Tan, 64, lost $12,000 over the six-day session.

The mother of four also revealed the reason why she refused to shower and insisted on going to the casino day after day: a fortune teller had told her she would strike it rich as her "fortune star would be at its brightest" a week before Chinese New Year, which fell on Feb 3 and 4 this year.

"No need for fresh change of clothes; I just wet the towel, clean-rub and then use the deodorant," she said.

"What for (use shower facilities)? It may wash away my luck. Anyway who cares about smell because most times I'd be on the smoking floor since I smoke," she said. "Instead of fresh underwear, I just change panty-liners," she added.

She also told the paper that her six-day binge was her longest ever and most times, she would spend only "two to three days maximum at either RWS or Marina Bay Sands."

She also revealed how she only needs an hour's nap a day when gambling and can sleep anywhere in the casino, including her own car or along the casino's walkways.

When she's "really too tired", she would move from the gambling tables to the jackpot machines which "no need to use brain power... just hit the button and depend on luck".

Otherwise, her favourite game was baccarat and that she usually bet between $500 to $1000 per hand. She set her loss limit at $20,000 per trip.

Madam Tan, who lives in a four-room HDB flat in Simei, said her eldest son -- an architect -- paid the annual $2,000 membership for her at both RWS and MBS. She also gets a monthly allowance of $5,800 from her four children.

Despite being on a losing streak since last July, she said she "can still afford it" and as long as she doesn't gamble on credit, "I won't have to worry about running up debts".

When contacted, her eldest son said he and his three siblings "are aware of and don't mind our mother's hobby."

Madam Tan is part of a group of punters who can spend days on a gambling binge.

Just last month, a South Korean research fellow from the National University of Singapore was thought to be missing only for it to be revealed later that he had spent 16 days straight at MBS and had never left the premises.

S'pore retiree gambles at Resorts World for six straight days - Yahoo!

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Croupier and patron jailed for rigging roulette game
Casino employee Ng Wuey Kiang (above) and punter Leong Teck Leong carried out their ruse over five days last October
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A CROUPIER and a punter hatched a scam to cheat the Resorts World Sentosa casino in the game of roulette last September.

It was planned that casino employee Ng Wuey Kiang, 24, would throw the ball so that it ended up within the 20 numbers grouped on one side of the roulette wheel.

He and Leong Teck Leong carried out their cheating over five days from Oct 2 to 9, until their ruse was discovered via closed-circuit TV footage.

Leong bet a total of 88 times. As Ng was unable to control the roulette ball, it landed on the wrong side of the wheel 48 times. To cover these losses, he would overpay Leong when he won.

Ng, a Malaysian, and Leong, 39, a Singaporean, were jailed for one year and nine months each yesterday by a district court, for criminal breach of trust and cheating.

They each pleaded guilty to eight charges, with 88 charges taken into consideration for sentencing for each man.

Agreeing with Deputy Public Prosecutor Ruth Wong that a deterrent sentence was necessary, District Judge Jasbendar Kaur said the scam was well-planned and both men were equally culpable.

'The plan required a croupier and a punter, so each played a crucial role,' the judge said.

Out of their winnings of $30,570, Ng received a cut of $1,700.

He returned $500 worth of chips to the casino on one of the days they committed the offences.

Asking the court to consider a lenient sentence, Leong's lawyer Michael Yap Gim Chuan said his client had quit his job as a planner for a transport firm to gamble full-time after the casinos opened early last year.

He went there daily and initially won between $300 and $1,000 on most days. However, his luck changed and he started losing up to $10,000 in a single night.

The court heard that Leong had gambled away some $50,000, and he and his wife have sold their car and flat. They have an eight-year-old son.

Mr Yap called the scam 'stupid' since, after deducting the losses in the 88 tries, Leong's profit was a mere $105.

Calling the punter the 'mastermind', Ng's lawyer Siva S. Krishnasamy said the croupier was 'young and naive', and allowed greed to get the better of him.

This is the second case of a casino patron being jailed for working in cahoots with a casino employee to rig games.

Earlier this month, Tan Tiong Loon, 32, was jailed for 10 months for cheating the Marina Bay Sands casino of $31,500 by conspiring with Keith Yong Kee-Hwei, 24, a former pit supervisor, to manipulate a 'money wheel' game last October. Yong has yet to be dealt with.

The maximum punishment for theft is a seven-year jail term and a $10,000 fine, and there is a maximum 10-year jail term and a similar fine for cheating.

KHUSHWANT SINGH

via : http://singsupplies.com/showthread.php?87686-Malaysia-CROUPIER-and-SG-punter-cheat-Resorts-World-casino

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That aunty story sounds like the one Ug told us his wife encountered.
The roulette story sounds like the one we got live report from bret at beach culture some time back.

CSG news faster than SPH when it comes to gambling.

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Yahoo News
Gambler busts 5 credit cards to pay S$200k debt
Just what have casinos done to Singaporeans?

In yet another case of a gambler out of control, a 29-year-old engineer not only busted five credit cards to pay off his gambling debts, but he also borrowed from nine credit companies to fulfill his payments, reported AsiaOne.

And that wasn't all — his aunts had to chip in to help him pay off debts that amounted up to S$100,000, according to Shin Min Daily. He also lost a girlfriend of 10 years as a result of his gambling addiction.

Still, the man did not learn his lesson. His father, Foo, soon found his son back at his costly routine again. When his aunts refused to help a second time, the man threatened to commit suicide.

The distressed father is now forking out money to clear his son's debts in hopes of the son applying for a self-exclusion order from the casino authorities. Foo is also questioning why the banks did not cancel his son's credit card after they realised he was unable to fulfill his payments.

His son still owes credit card companies S$20,000.

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is the guy crazy or what? to rake up over 200k in gambling debt?

what's going on in their mind?

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he must be thinking on getting rich the quick way. anyway, what cum fast also goes away fast. that to the guys is always their downfall.

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AN INDONESIAN member of what is believed to be the first betting syndicate in a casino here was given a four-month jail term and fined $50,000 yesterday.

Odd-job labourer Ricki, who goes by only one name, pleaded guilty to two charges of bookmaking.

The 26-year-old was one of a five-member syndicate which approached patrons at the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino between April and last month, offering them chances at making side bets on games going on there.

These illegal side bets, called “insurance bets” were made available in Paiza Room 801, where baccarat was the game of choice.

The illegal bookies’ activities were caught on closed-circuit televisions last month by officers from the Casino Crime Investigation Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department.

So far, three of the five members, including Ricki, have been arrested.

Items seized from them included more than $46,000 in casino chips, $78,000 in cash and a cheque for $100,000.

Asking for the minimum jail sentence and fine, Ricki’s lawyer Choo Si Sen said his client was just a casual labourer who had been recruited as a runner for $100 to $150 a day, and was not a principal in the syndicate.

Court papers said the syndicate was formed when Singaporean vegetable-seller Lee Chin Chuan, 47, started offering insurance bets at MBS on his own.

He later roped in masseur Goh Boon Kwang, a patron at the casino, and paid him between $100 and $200 for every winning bet made.

Lee subsequently recruited another three runners, including Ricki, to take insurance bets for him.

He paid them between $100 and $150 a day.

Lee is said to have made about $30,000 and Goh, $6,000, since April.

Lee and Goh will face charges in court next Thursday; another two members, Ang Keng Peng, a Singaporean, and an Indonesian known only as “Rhino” are still on the run.

The Paiza Club is known as the playground of local and foreign “whales” or high rollers, mostly from Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar.

A casino expert said insurance bets are not a widespread practice and appear to have trickled down from Resorts World Genting in Malaysia to the casinos here.

Dr Davis Fong, director of the Institute for the Study of Commercial Gaming at the University of Macau, said: “It is a regional gambling behaviour popular among VIP gamblers.”

He added that a solution to the problem of insurance gambling may simply lie in the casino also providing an avenue for side bets.

The maximum penalty for illegal bookmaking is a fine of $200,000 and a jail term of five years.

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Mdm Zhu Yun Ping has vowed that she will never visit casinos again.

Mdm Zhu recently won a jackpot cash prize of more than $410,000 from the Marina Bay Sands (MBS) casino.

She has since received the money from the casino and donated about $300,000 of her prize to charities.

She is however, concerned that her recent win may have glamourise gambling and led people to believe that they can strike it rich by gambling.

In order to set a good example for others and to drive her message across, Mdm Zhu has now decided she will never visit casinos again.

She said, "I thought over it for a night before coming to this decision. I will never visit casinos again, be it the one at Resorts World Sentosa or Marina Bay Sands."

"I'm not a gambler and will buy 4D only occasionally when inspiration strikes, so I don't think this decision will affect me," she added.

Since her win, swindlers have been approaching her for money.

They tell her various sad stories, such as to repay their debts or to treat illnesses. But these people always scoot when Mdm Zhu tells them that she will contact her lawyer.

Mdm Zhu's win hit the headlines as many were intrigued to see a regular Singaporean like her take on a multi-billion-dollar goliath like MBS over her disputed win.

Sauce: http://news.insing.com/tabloid/jackpot-winner-vows-never-to-visit-casinos-again/id-a9163f00

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VEGETABLE seller Lee Chin Chuan went from hawking tomatoes and cucumbers to masterminding what is believed to be the first illegal betting syndicate in a Singapore casino.

The 49-year-old was jailed for 10 months and fined a total of $90,000 yesterday for offering private insurance bets, which allow baccarat players to reduce the risk of losing their original wager.

Lee, who financed the scheme, made $30,000 before he was arrested at Marina Bay Sands in June. Police found $13,200 worth of chips on him, as well as $4,784 in cash and a $100,000 cheque.

The father of four learnt about insurance bets from a friend he met in the casino early this year, his lawyer Alfred Dodwell said. The friend explained how they worked and said it was a standard feature in the casinos of Genting Highlands.

In March, Lee – who runs a vegetable stall in Jurong East – began offering the side bets, in which players wager they will have the losing hand on the baccarat table. That way, even if they are unsuccessful in the main game, they at least win the insurance bet – although it cannot be bigger than their original stake.

He was joined by masseur Goh Boon Kwang, 43, who asked to be in on the action. Lee also employed three runners – odd-job worker Ang Keng Peng and two Indonesians. Each was paid between $100 and $150 each day.

The runners were given chips worth $20,000 to use as an insurance float, and told which players to target.

They then surreptitiously placed the float near the gambler at the side of the table. When players won their side bets, they took chips from the float. Those who lost added their chips to the pile.

The court heard the runners avoided touching the insurance float where possible so they would not arouse suspicion.

Their luck ran out in June, when Goh and one of the Indonesians were arrested in a members’ only area of the casino called the Paiza Diamond Club. Lee was picked up nearby.

Yesterday, he pleaded guilty to acting as a bookmaker. District Judge Eddy Tham said that as the financier and mastermind, he deserved a stiff sentence.

Lee’s wife wrote a letter to the court describing him as hardworking and devoted to her and their four children, aged seven to 19.

He could have been jailed for up to five years and fined up to $200,000.

Goh has already been sentenced to six months in prison and given a $60,000 fine. Ang, 38, was jailed for four months and fined $40,000 while Ricki, the 26-year-old Indonesian arrested at the casino, got four months and a $50,000 fine.

The other Indonesian, known only as Rino or Jackson, is still at large.

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From http://health.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20111118-311356.html



A Malaysian visitor was frustrated and angry after losing $18,000 on his first visit to Marina Bay Sands.

At about 5pm on Oct 26, Tan Kuan Loong tried to cheat at a three-dice game, sic bo, by placing a late bet of $30 on the winning combination.

It should have won him $1,500, but his cheating ways were found out after dealer Chaiyaboot Narumon told her pit manager about her suspicions of the bet.

As the surveillance department reviewed the video footage of that bet, Tan tried to sneak in another bet of $30, when one of the dice already showed a five.

Tan pleaded guilty to one charge, while the second cheating offence was taken into consideration by the judge in the sentencing.

Tan's defence counsel Rajan Supramaniam asked for leniency, saying his client had a five-year-old daughter with a hole in the heart.

He had also resorted to cheating in  a moment of foolishness.

Tan was fined $1,500. He could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined up to $10,000.

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SINGAPORE : The Casino Regulatory Authority of Singapore (CRA) has fined Singapore's two casino operators for breaching social safeguard requirements.

Offences include allowing Singapore citizens or Permanent Residents to enter the casino without valid entry levies or with expired levies, as well as allowing persons on exclusion orders and minors (persons under the age of 21) to enter the casino.

Marina Bay Sands (MBS) was fined S$255,000, while Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) was imposed financial penalties of S$130,000.

The casino regulator said the financial penalties were imposed on the casino operators for breaching regulations under the Casino Control Act during the period 28 October 2010 to 30 April 2011, and 15 August 2010 to 30 April 2011 respectively.

MBS had let in 14 Singapore citizens and Permanent Residents without valid entry levies, while RWS let in five.

MBS had also allowed two Singaporeans and Permanent Residents with expired entry levies to remain in the casino, while RWS did so with three persons.

Separately, MBS let in six persons on exclusion orders, and RWS let in one.

MBS was also fined for letting in two minors.

RWS was fined for letting in six minors and was also separately censured for five cases of similar breaches.

Chief executive of the CRA, Lau Peet Meng, said the operators need to improve their entry systems and processes, exercise more diligence in carrying out their checks, and comply fully with the laws and regulations.

He said: "These social safeguards are put in place to mitigate the casino's potential impact on vulnerable persons and to ring fence the casinos from potential criminal influence. Hence, we are taking tough disciplinary action against the casino operators for the cases where they have failed to show due care in complying with our requirements to prevent minors and excluded persons from entering the casinos, and to ensure that entry levies are duly paid.

"The operators will need to improve their entry systems and processes, exercise more diligence in carrying out their checks, and comply fully with our laws and regulations. CRA will not hesitate to take firm action against the operators should such incidents recur."

In response, RWS said it takes these social safeguard lapses seriously and have reinforced security personnel and checks at the casino entrance.

A spokesman said RWS is committed to continuously reviewing its entry systems and processes with the view of improving detection procedures.

Separately, an MBS spokesperson told Channel NewsAsia that "it is Marina Bay Sands' top priority to comply with all regulatory requirements in Singapore and MBS endeavours to do so at all times".

This is the first case of disciplinary action taken since rules were tightened in November to ensure casinos here do not target the domestic market.

A study on the social impact of casinos here is expected to be released soon.

- CNA/ms

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