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Postmaster: Send STREET ADDRESS: 2450 Hollywood Blvd., Ste. 301A, Hollywood, FL 33020 address changes to New Times BPB LLC, P.O. Box 011591, Miami, FL 33101-1591. FOR GENERAL INFORMATION: 954-342-7700 3 3 | NEWS | GAMBLER’S GETAWAY Poker player with $100,000 in cash foiled two robberies in one day. BY KYLE SWENSON browardpalmbeach.com browardpalmbeach.com he poker player’s white racked up $282,203 in winnings. Bluff. com ranks him 538th worldwide. TS | TS Nikes had just hit the N The wins attracted attention. In every concrete outside New casino, clinging to the fringes of the action, TE N York’s John F. Kennedy is a shady subset of regulars. Whenever a O C TAirport the night before Thanks- player cooks up a hot streak, they home in, giving. The sky was bruising over cheering, fetching drinks, boosting egos. In return, they expect a couple hundred with twilight. Terminal 5 was a dollars for their own games, PokerNews’ PULP | hectic holiday beehive of pas- Peters explains. “Mostly, they’ll ask, sengers hustling for last-minute ‘Oh, hey, you just won $100,000. Can JetBlue hops. And there was Eric you stake me $1,000 for this game?’ ” In Riley’s case, he was often flanked | NEWS | | NEWS Riley, Jamaican-born, 32 years Y by fellow Jamaicans. One in particular, a old, and a skinny six-foot-three, in baby-faced 40-something with a two-inch DA jeans and a brown Polo sweater. Mohawk who went by the name “Junior,” One moment he was popping out the stuck to his side. passenger door of his friend Junior’s blue Riley would let him Camry and walking to get his backpack from “THERE’S hang around and the open trunk. The next he was watching NOTHING even stake Junior in GE | NIGHT+ A the car speed off. His backpack was still in small poker games. T GOOD THAT S the car. The backpack held $100,000 in cash In November, the — his winnings from two weeks in Atlantic COMES FROM poker pro decided City. The backpack, the Deerfield Beach LEAVING to take a road trip, resident realized, had just been boosted. WITH A GUY working casinos from Nearby, a cab’s door was open. Riley WITH A GUN.” Florida up the East tossed everything in his wallet — four Coast to a tourna- crumpled hundred-dollar bills, credit ment starting November 24 at Borgata Hotel card, license — at the driver as he Casino in Atlantic City. Rather than wire climbed in. “That guy stole my money!” buy-in money ahead of time, which could Riley bellowed. “Follow that car!” result in delays, bank fees, and needing to Riley’s bizarre day was far find a bank branch in an unfamiliar city, Riley from over. Soon he’d be feeling the opted to travel with cash so he’d be flexible bad end of a 9mm handgun. to enter any promising game he stumbled | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | | NEWS NIGHT+DAY STAGE | PULP | CONTENTS | | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | MUSIC DISH FILM ART The incident would serve as a cau- across. He stuffed a backpack with $70,000. tionary tale in the world of big-money “Whenever there’s a big tournament no-limit poker, where the payouts are in town, the cash games get larger,” Pe- fat and the casinos from South Florida ters explains. “Big-name pros come into EACH B to Atlantic City are haunted by shady town to play the tournament, bust out, hangers-on with hidden agendas. but then play in the cash games.” Poker cash games — the regular rounds Marta Xochilt Perez At the Maryland Live! Casino out- of casino play, as opposed to organized Eric Riley says he’ll never again travel with so much cash. side Baltimore, Riley came out $10,000 tournaments — regularly see big pots. In ahead. In his first week in Atlantic City, he May 2012, pro player Tom Dwan scooped player in his driveway before making off Riley began entering serious tourna- brought his $80,000 up by about $25,000. up a record $3.8 million from a Chinese bil- with $4,000 in winnings. The 74-year-old ments in 2011 but didn’t do well at first. Junior, who had moved to Brooklyn, ar- lionaire in Macau.