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World's top poker player wins pound 7.3‰million, but top London casino refuses payout

London, Oct 8 : Britain's oldest casino is investigating a £7.3 million win by the world's top poker player – and is refusing to pay him  a penny. Crockfords, the exclusive Mayfair gaming club, has informed

PTI Updated on: October 08, 2012 10:37 IST




Sources said  Ivey played for two nights over the August bank holiday for about seven hours in all.  

Suspicions over the win intensified when it was  discovered that his companion's membership of another Mayfair casino had previously been  suspended.  

Crockfords, the oldest private gaming club in the world, is owned by Genting, the Malaysian gaming corporation.  

Genting investigators flew to London from Kuala Lumpur  to speak to everyone who was working on the two nights in question and to examine hours of film from surveillance cameras. 

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