In a lawsuit accusing Stones Gambling Hall of cheating, the Sacramento, California card club’s defense has filed a motion to dismiss, arguing that the casino is not obliged to ensure that players won’t be cheated.
The second motion to dismiss follows an earlier motion in which attorneys said there was “no evidence” of cheating in the games, which were live streamed.
Nearly 90 plaintiffs are suing the casino.
Tournament directors are accused of cheating players in low-stakes games of about $250,000. “Casinos do not owe a general duty of care to gamblers,” Stones’ legal team argued in the motion. “Their failure to include adequate facts establishes they cannot support their claims… Plaintiffs can neither prove negligence nor fraud, they rely on innuendos and insinuations that are not substitutes for facts or law.”
The casino is not arguing that the tournament directors didn’t cheat, but rather that the casino wasn’t obligated to prevent such cheating.
Attorney for the plaintiffs Mac VerStandig said of the second motion, “It is disappointing to see Stones continue to characterize my clients as essentially being sore losers, and it is disheartening to see a card room proclaim that it does not have a duty to its consumers even in a situation as egregious as this.”
