Player Arrested For Spitting on Dealer

This week, Mesbah Khaffaji allegedly spat on a dealer after loosing a hand. I actually just reread this sentence and it sounded like it could be straight from an episode of CSI but anyhow. It seemed that with all the pressure and stakes that accompany a player to the table emotions can sometimes get the best of them

This was no more evident than Sunday night in Bell Gardens when poker player Mesbah Khaffaji allegedly spat on a card dealer after losing a hand.

The Casino was Bicycle Casino, located in Bell Gardens, and Khaffaji was taken into custody by Bell Gardens authorities after spitting.  The player reported lost a hand on a Texas Hold Em’ No Limit table.

This was not the first time that Police Sergeant Brendan Kirkpatrick said that and incident such as this has occurred.

“Is it often? No. Does it happen? Yes,” remarked Kirkpatrick, to the paper the L.A Times. “People get heated. Large sums of money lost, people can’t control their emotions.”

While emotions can run high during an intense game of poker, people who play online poker in the USA enjoy a certain degree of anonymity and privacy that helps prevent this sort of thing from happening. Many internet poker sites do offer an in-game chat feature, but players who lose their temper and begin to abuse the chat system will quickly find themselves disconnected.