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UK – London court yet to rule over Park Lane Club’s ‘offer’ of cash-back commission
By Phil - 13. listopadu 2020
Croatian businessman Juste Puharic is suing The Park Lane Club in Mayfair after spending £27m over five days in May 2015 playing roulette there, after the casino failed to pay-up the commission on the best he made despite paying his £1.5m winnings.
He claims he staked the amount because casino staff encouraged him with a cash-back offer on his bets. He believes he is ‘contractually entitled’ to £243,518, representing a 0.9 per cent commission on his bets of £27,057,621, in addition to the £1,466,056.
The casinos is owned by Silverbond Enterprises, who has recently had its licence revoked.
Christopher Bamford, zastupující pana Puhariče, nastínil, že zaměstnanci kasina mu nabídli kávu a večeři poté, co ho oslovili na ulici, s tím, že se vyrovnají nebo porazí nejlepší nabídky kasina jakéhokoli jiného kasina Mayfair.
Pan Puharic tvrdí, že kasino souhlasilo s tím, že mu zaplatí provizi ve výši 0.9 procenta z jeho sázek, což odpovídá nabídce vrácení peněz, na kterou měl nárok v jiných kasinech Mayfair, ať už vyhrál nebo prohrál.
Guy Olliff-Cooper, zastupující kasino Park Lane, řekl: „Možná bylo řečeno, že klub udělá vše pro to, aby byl konkurenceschopný, a proto by zvážil odpovídající podmínky, které pan Puharič dostal jinde. Ale nebyla učiněna žádná formální nabídka."
Mr Olliff-Cooper added that the member of staff who approached Mr Puharic in the street was ‘not particularly interested’ in encouraging him to play at the casino. He told Judge Gavin Mansfield QC that ‘he was simply trying to be polite’.
He added: “Casinos use a variety of incentives to attract customers. The defendant’s position is simply that it never made him this matching offer. The defendant did not offer to match or better the incentives that Mr Puharic received at other Mayfair casinos. The only incentive offered to roulette players at the Park Lane Club was discretionary free hospitality and commission which could be used as a ‘discount on losses’ but not claimed by a player who came out on top. The defendant did not offer to match or better the incentives that Mr Puharic received at other Mayfair casinos. This action should be dismissed.”
He added that discretionary free hospitality and commission which can be used as a ‘discount on losses’, could not be claimed back by a player who won.
