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Derby Lane management, at best, are incompetent buffoons who are not even qualified to be running a lemonade stand, and at worst, they are outright cheats exhibiting a pompous self-righteous arrogance towards customers, which can be explained only as a designed tactic used to conceal their nefarious actions by attempting to intimidate players into submission.
I had the misfortune of visiting their establishment to participate in a promotional event in which the best poker hand every thirty minutes receives $500. I was successful in doing so; the floorman in attendance then verified the hand and explained that after eight minutes, I would receive the $500, as long as a higher hand was not hit in the remaining eight minutes.
However, at the end of the interval, management backtracked and told me that they had made a mistake, and that another exact hand, consisting of quad tens with a jack kicker, had hit before mine, giving it priority because it had occurred earlier in the interval. Even though it's Derby Lane's fiduciary responsibility to accurately inform customers of the current status of the top hand, I explained to them that I would accept their explanation justifying their incompetence if they would show me the video verifying their explanation, but they refused to do so.
In response, I contacted the Florida agency responsible for regulating poker rooms, which is currently investigating the incident, but in response to my appeal to the regulatory agency, Derby Lane added insult to injury by issuing a trespassing demand and ordering that I immediately vacate the premises.
These heavy-handed tactics are not in any way unique to me, or by any stretch, the exception; they are the rule at Derby Lane. Please, for your own good, keep this in mind before you, too, are a victim of their malfeasance.
