Posted on 08/06/2008 7:27:55 AM PDT by SmithL
CHEROKEE, N.C. — Investigators have stopped a cheating ring that stole $286,000 at the Cherokee Indian casino in western North Carolina, a newspaper reported today.
No arrests have been made but investigators are questioning a 26-year-old electronic card dealer at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported.
Cherokee Indian Police Department Chief Ben Reed said the FBI had been contacted. Arrests are likely . . .
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What is an electronic card dealer ?
Maybe we can have senator Harry Reid open up investigations on the casino. Bet him and the boys from Chicago culd uncover something.
What is an electronic card dealer ?
The “electronic card dealer” is the dealer who runs the table, and pushes the button to deal the card electronically.
Cherokee casino does not have traditional table games for blackjack...live dealers, dealing digital cards.
Weird, I know, but NC won’t allow otherwise.
Injun trouble?
I went to the Cherokee casino a few years back. Not Impressed. After having been to Vegas, it looked pretty rinky-dink.
In other words video poker where someone else pushes the buttons, and people still play??
I went up there last summer (7/7/07) and franky I was stunned at how you can have a casino with no alcohol, nor “live cards”. Pretty lame.
Here is a pic from the site of what it looks like... http://www.harrahs.com/casinos/harrahs-cherokee/casino-gambling/table-games-detail.html
What puzzles me is why NC law would make a difference. I thought that the very reason these casino exist is because Indian reservations are sovergn nations not subject to state law regarding gaming and etc.
Puzzles me also and I don’t have an answer. I only know that Harrah’s built an addition which was to be a poker room and the state of NC denied them permission to host poker there so now its a smoke free casino.
NC also had some say in allowing the casino in the first place.
I will have to research the ins and outs of the relationship of the state and the tribe. All cars have license plates, inspection stickers, people have state issued drivers licenses. On the other hand the tribe runs a court system, has their own laws, police and tribal council and does not have a representative in the legislature [which goes back to the recognition of the tribe in NC in ...ummm...1878[?]. They do not have a jail, tho. Rarely if ever to I see any Highway Patrol or county sherrifs on tribal lands[except to be passing thru, I guess.
...this is crazy....if I’m going to gamble I want to look at my cards...not some screen.
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