It looks like the Golden Nugget security may have gotten a little too personal over the ordeal. This is far from over.

http://calvinayre.com/2014/06/14/cas...huffled-cards/

Nugget owner Tilman Fertitta said his company would pay the $1m if the gamblers would drop their unlawful detention claims. The gamblers refused so Fertitta withdrew his offer and the issue went back to court.

http://www.app.com/story/news/local/...game/16151257/

The cards were not in sequential 1-2-3 order, but were arranged in a pre-set pattern that repeated itself every 16 hands.
The players soon realized this, and increased their bets from $10 a hand to $5,000. After 37 hands were dealt, the players all placed the same bet, and won every hand until the cards ran out.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...ard_manuf.html

The three are from Atlantic City, Queens and Brooklyn, N.Y. One of them, Hua Shi of Brooklyn claims he was sleeping in his room at the casino when someone knocked on the door. When he answered, he was rushed by four Golden Nugget employees who pinned him against the wall and searched him and his belongings, according to his lawsuit. He said casino personnel held him in a room without food, water or an interpreter for eight hours. After a second search of his room, he was released, his lawsuit asserts.