Beat: WSOP Media director gets stiffed by MGM for $5k

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Dalla, a media organizer for the World Series of Poker and other major poker tournaments, obtained the $5,000 MGM Grand chip at the center of our story from a friend who owed him money. Dalla decided to cash the chip at the same time he cashed a winning sports book ticket from MGM Grand.

Asked whether he won the chip at the casino, Dalla told the casino cashier he got it from a friend. That's when a supervisor stepped in, asked a few more questions and then confiscated the chip, saying Dalla couldn't prove that the chip had been obtained legally.