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A Burning Affair with the Roulette

A roulette player, who lost £40,000, afterwards returned to the casino and tried to set it on fire. The distraught roulette player sprayed gasoline over a croupier and soaked gaming tables with petrol before trying to light them with a lighter. But luckily to the casino's visitors and employees he got petrol into his eyes while trying to ignite the place. This gave time to security guards to restrain him.

This occurred at the Connoisseur Club in the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington last Friday (this hotel would soon host the Mobile Gambling Summit of 2006 at the end this January). A casino worker said: “He began placing with bets of around £65, but he lost time after time, he kept raising his bets until he was laying down £5,000 a game. He was completely furious.” The roulette player, a man with no prior convictions, left the casino's premises and came back two hours later with two plastic bottles filled with gasoline.

The worker said: “He shouted in front us all that the roulette table was fixed and then he purred petrol over the croupier. The girl was in panic, the whole event was a nightmare." He tried frantically to light it; fortunately by accident he sprayed his eyes and was momentarily blinded.” The Metropolitan Police said: “We can verify we were called to reports of a man intimidating to start a fire.”