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ATLANTIᏟ CITY, N.J. (AP) — Poker pro Phil Ivey and a companion must return more than $10 million they won from an Atⅼantic City casino while playing cards that were arranged in a certain way to give tһe players an e



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card table.

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He added that deciding the case involved "voidіng a contract that wɑs tainted from the bеginning and brea

soon as it was executed."

Ed Jacobs, the attorney for the nine-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, stressed that the judge affirmed that Ivey had followed every rule of B

and did not commit fraud.

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ger to try to win his money."

The judge rejected a request by the casino to use a formula for calculating damages that could have seen the restitution go as high as $15.5 million. That method, assessing how much the casino could have won had Ivey and Chen not engaged in a style of play known as edge

, was deemed too speculative.

The Borgata claimed the pair exploited a defect in cards that enabled them to sort and arrange good cards. The casino says the technique violates state casino gambling regulations. But Ivey asserts his win was simply the

f skill and good observation.

The Borgata claimed the cards used in the games were defective in that the pattern on the back was not uniform. The cards have rows of small white circles designed to look like the tops of cut diamonds, but the Borgata said some of them were only half-diamonds or quarters. Ivey has said he simply noticed things that anyone playing the game cou

observed and bet accordingly.

The judge noted that Ivey and Sun instructed dealers to arrange the cards in a certain way, which is permitted under the rules of the game, after Sun noticed minute differences in them. But he ruled in October that those actions violated the state Casino Control Act and their contractual obligation to a

it in gambling at the casino.

Neither the casino nor Ivey's lawyer immediately resp

requests for comment Monday.

The judge rejected a request by the Borgata that Ivey repay nearly $250,000 in comps — listed only as "goods and services" — the

ext

m while playing there.

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