Get lucky in his bad luck, it is the expression that best fits Eric Riley, a 32-year-old pro poker player.
At the end of the month of October, Eric participated in a tournament in Florida at $ 2,500 buy-in. He finished 4th in the event, and pockets $ 80,000. With money in his pocket, he decided to leave Florida to fly to Atlantic City, where he decides to play the cash games at the Borgota.
Things are going well for him and Eric is now winning $ 20,000, tickets that are in addition to his gain spent $ 80,000.
After a few days, Eric decides to leave New Jersey, direction airport JFK in New York.
To get to the airport, Eric is renew by his "friend" met Junior a few days previously. Both will know little, but Eric made of outright confidence to Junior who leads him to destination. Made at the airport, Eric thanks his friend for the transport and fate of the car to retrieve his 2 bags (including one in which piling up $ 100,000 in tickets). Barely made it to the trunk of the car, Junior pressed the accelerator and tries to sow Eric and elope with tickets.
The first instinct of Eric is to take a taxi to the flight and ask the driver to run after the car's Junior (kinda like in the movies). To ensure a maximum of cooperation of the driver, he gives her $ 400 from the first seconds.
When Junior came to a stop at a traffic light, Eric down course and taxi to the trunk of the car still open to resume one of his luggage. Luckily for him, it was the suitcase that interested him the most.
Eric, still in shock, meets a police car that offers to take it at the airport. Once in the car to 'police', the two men interrupt Eric them telling his misadventure to him pointing a gun at the torso. "Policemen" were in fact accomplices to Junior who had the same goal as him, i.e. seize $ 100,000.
The two men ask him his money, but Eric refused despite threats. The car, Eric managed to open the window and throw it to escape the criminal. Finally, Eric only will have had a few scratches and a really interesting story to tell.
At the time of this writing, the criminals have still not been arrested, but the investigation is ongoing.
His bad luck was talk the New York Post who has devoted an article to its history.
A double bad luck story that ends well.
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