Three waiters were happy to oblige the cashed-up player with as many drinks as he requested and failed to keep track of the seriously high level of alcohol the man was ingesting as he sat at the same card table in the main gaming floor from 2.30am. It was not until the card table closed at 7am that Star City staff realised the man was wildly intoxicated.
"He didn't appear to be steady on his feet. He was dozing off at the table and the manager had to help him collect his chips so he could cash them in," bar waiter Helen Mikhael-Ghanime, who was sacked for her role in serving the man 15 beers in seven hours, said. Star City Casino, in Pyrmont NSW, has been fined $10,000 for breaching liquor laws, which ban casino operators from allowing an intoxicated person to gamble.
When the Casino Liquor and Gaming Control Authority demanded that Star City show cause, the casino argued that its staff could not tell the gambler was drunk because of his poker face. "The nature of poker is that players tend to be ... very controlled in their facial expressions and body movements," Star City's leaked letter to the authority states. "This level of control means that many of the visible signs that a person ... is affected by alcohol may be minimised."
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