Poker participant Scott Jerome Robbins is suing the Borgata Atlantic City after casino staff banned him for living o'er a gag he made nearly jumping come out of his hotel way window.
Robbins wants $1.2 jillion inward potency lost earnings, arguing that Borgata management’s alleged overreaction to some off-the-cuff-remarks made at the breast desk violated his civil rights.
Meanwhile, the defendants’ subsequent actions and statements were “an exertion to deflect from their failings” and slandered Robbins, piece breaching public trust, the suit claims.
Misfiring Banter
In September 2020, Robbins arrived at the Atlantic City casino to child's play inwards the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event. While there, he was capable to win an accounting entry fine worth $3,500 in a $400 satellite.
That evening, while checking into the hotel, Robbins was asked by the desk clerk whether he would favour a room on a richly level or a depression floor.
Per the lawsuit:
[Robbins] jestingly responded, “If I had to bound from a high floor window [meaning, inward slip of discharge or earthquake], would I do it?” The clerk responded with “NO, don’t manage that.” He and so responded with “I won’t.” Accordingly, inward keeping with the conversation, he asked “would I pass water it if I had to jump out of a get down floor?” She also responded with “NO, don’t do that.” Again, he said clearly, “I won’t,” and then, again, inwards keeping with the conversation, laughingly said: “but since I wouldn’t come through either, i infer it doesn’t matter what story you devote me.”
Robbins asserts inward his complaint that on that point was laughter, and the jocular setting of the conversation was understood. He was allocated a way on the Borgata’s 50th floor. The lawsuit notes that the hotel windows at the Borgata are several inches deep and doh non open.
Trip to a Psychiatrist
Shortly after Jerome Robbins had unpacked his belongings, cassino protection arrived at his room to inform him he was a danger to himself and would have got to depart to a hospital to be examined past a head-shrinker before he could return.
Robbins was lost(p) but complied with the casino’s request. He got in the ambulance that had been called by the casino, for which he was charged $1,157, and was transported to Atlanticare Regional Medical Center.
There, a head-shrinker like a shot issued Robbins a psychiatrical clearance observance ($865) stating the fire hook player neither posed a danger to himself nor anyone else. Jerome Robbins yet laughed the incident cancelled with the psychiatrist.
‘Wonton and Reckless’
But when he returned to the Borgata, he found he had been “banned for life” from the premises. Not only was he barred from participating inward the tournament for which he held a 3,500 ticket, but also from all hereafter tournaments held at the Borgata.
Robbins says he was a regular on the Borgata fire hook circuit. Nationwide, he has grossed $417,325 in unrecorded tournament wins since 2018.
The case alleges that before the daytime was out the defendant had “wantonly and recklessly” made it known to others, “including but not special to others on the Borgata and professional person stove poker circuits, that Mr. Robbins was prohibited for life-time from the Borgata because of a suicide attempt.”
As a result, he missed incorporated and single sponsorships estimated at upward to $200,000, the causa states.
Based upon his earnings from previous Borgata poker tournaments, inward continuative with his yearly earnings percentage, Robbins believes he could have made an rough network amount of $85,000 per year at the casino.
He is demanding $850,000 for X lost years of theoretic hereafter tournament play, positive another $200,000 inward punitive and compensatory damages.