Plus, the qualifiers will receive a FREE hotel stay for June 24. On June 24, winners who selected to qualify for the final giveaway will check in starting at 7:30pm for the chance to win up to $50,000 cash when we name winners every half hour from 8pm-10pm. Every half hour from 1pm-6pm each Saturday, five winners will have the chance to pick a prize and qualify for the final giveaway.

Simultaneous arrests were also made around the country in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.Activate your entries after noon each Saturday by swiping your card at an Island Passport Club kiosk or earning base points on slots, table games or bingo. The FBI raided both card rooms and seized over a half of million in cash in player's sport book accounts. Seven Mile Casino is located at 285 Bay Boulevard in Chula Vista, California - 7 miles from Tijuana and 7 miles from San Diego. Losing sportsbettors often wrote checks directly to the casinos.įat Dave and associates got careless discussing the details of their operation in the wide open because the FBI has damaging evidence via two years of wire taps. Local winners were often paid out with poker chips from either card room. His customer base included over 360 accounts and serviced clients in Canada, Mexico, the U.S., and the Caribbean. During a pre-dawn raid, the FBI shut down Palomar and Seven Mile.įat Dave's offshore sportsbook handled approximately $2 million per month in wagers. In addition to running a high-end prostitution ring and general bookmaking (utilizing an online sportsbook hosted offshore), proceeds in excess of $10 million were laundered through various shell companies and two popular San Diego-based card rooms – The Seven Mile Casino and the Palomar Card Club.

The Feds believe that the lead defendant in the case and established bookie from San Diego, David “Fat Dave” Stroj, has links to the Philadelphia mafia.Īfter gathering evidence for two years, the FBI arrested 25 people in six different states in conjunction with Fat Dave's illegal gambling operation that hosted high-stakes poker games and backroom casino host in various mansions in some of San Diego's wealthiest neighborhoods.

The FBI busted up a lucrative illegal gambling ring on Wednesday in San Diego, California.

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