This third player’s distraction consisted of a litany of questions that kept the game running slow enough and the table dynamics confused enough for his co-conspirators to pull off their slight of hand.
The casino staff had spotted something suspicious during the trio’s sessions at those poker tables and reported it to the police.ĭuring the poker games, two of the players would allegedly swap cards under the table, while the third kept the dealer and other players distracted. The ship has an onboard casino where the three alleged malefactors played poker. The Spanish press reported that after Wonder of the Seas docked, the Civil Guard boarded her, and they dragged the three men out cowed and cuffed. The festival was a month of poker in which big names took down huge prize pools and the EPT Barcelona Main Event set new records. She pulled into Barcelona’s port over the weekend, just as the city was wrapping up a poker festival that combined the EPT with the ESPT. Wonder of the Seas is an Oasis-class cruise ship in the fleet of Royal Caribbean. Not long after Barcelona wrapped up a big week of poker, the Civil Guard arrested three cheats who arrived in the city aboard the Wonder of the Seas.