Why did the poker community forgive Phil Ivey so quickly despite cheating the casinos
He didn't cheat. But he was also not legally entitled to the money he won.
When you sit down at a house game at a casino, by doing so you are agreeing to play the game with the odds the house is giving you.
If you change the odds, you are now in breech of such contract.
Like it or not, Phil changed the odds of the game.
Yes, he changed the odds, and the casino agreed to it ahead of time. They were just being bitches afterwards.
You can't seriously think the casino knew Ivey would have an advantage and they still agreed to let him play.
He's a known advantage player. No responsible Casino official could look at such a set of bizarre conditions and not figure he's doing it to gain some kind of advantage, even if he can't tell what it is beforehand.
You're making my point. Businesses aren't responsible for gross negligence of their employees when it comes to this kind of thing.
If you called up Verizon to complain, and an employee tells you they will give you 50 free iPhones.....Verizon is not obligated to honor that.
Also, you obviously don't know the completely wild requests casinos get from high rollers.
Then it's on the employee. It's not Ivey's fault if whoever's responsible for dealing with requests like his doesn't run them by security first.
Possibly. Ivey can go sue the employee for 6 million if he wants.