Former November Niner Scott Montgomery Robbed at Bellagio
October 11th, 2010
What’s two grand when you’ve got one of these? (Photo: Rob Mathis)
Life has been good for Scott Montgomery over the past couple of years. He made the WSOP Main Event final table in 2008 and won more than $3 million, won a bracelet at the WSOP this summer, and most recently was linked romantically to Norwegian poker phenom Annette Obrestad. But yesterday he caught a bit of success’ flip side when he was robbed at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas.
Montgomery was at Bellagio to play in a Festa al Lago preliminary event and went to the bathroom on a break from the tournament. As he described it on his Twitter account, “Got mugged today at Bellagio. Black guy pulled a knife on me in the restroom. I gave him the $2k in my wallet and he left.”
“I called security, but they took like 15 mins so they didn’t catch him. They are useless twits. Didn’t even ask me to look at camera footage,” Montgomery continued. “Security pretty much just said oh well, life sucks, have a nice day. I’m pretty annoyed.”
There’s not much more in the way of details right now, unless you count the thread about the robbery at 2+2, which has mostly turned into a discussion of whether the ex-November Niner is racist because he mentioned that his attacker was black. Getting robbed certainly sucks, but Scott Montgomery should cheer up. It’s definitely better to be annoyed and out $2,000 than stabbed and out a pint or two of blood – especially when you’ve won $4.1 million in live poker tournaments since 2008.
