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Video, European poker tournament robbed live on air -A gang of masked gunmen with assault rifles and a machete stormed the German poker tournament in a luxury hotel – as it was broadcast on television directly.

Six men broke into the Grand Hyatt Hotel yesterday afternoon and stole about 800,00 euros.

“Many of the masked, armed men entered the hotel and fled with the amounts of money,” said a police spokeswoman.

Many of the participants in the tournament in Berlin in the Grand Hyatt Hotel were slightly injured and panicked and fled during a robbery in bold. There are no reports of serious injuries.

The newspaper quoted one witness as saying that the robbers were armed with automatic weapons and machetes and hand grenades.

Unarmed security guard and faced some of the attackers. He told a German newspaper that he was beaten with a machete but managed to avoid serious injury by moving his head “so I did not hurt too bad – but he grabbed me around the eye.”

The guard then gave a pole and safes in men because they are bags full of cash.

“And pointed a gun in my face and went out of the way, and continued to fill their bags. As they fled, I managed to get one of them in a headlock.

“As another guard came to help me the man with the machete returned so I had to let him go because I was not armed.”

Wiitness Claudia Sommerey told Spiegel Online: “I saw three masked men with rifles. Try to keep security in the Gulf. I heard someone shouting ‘Down, down, down’ until I got under one of the tables.”

Win the grand prize of the tournament was euro1 million dinars (1.36 million dollars), according to the European Poker Tour (Center for financial regulation on the Internet. The status of financial management of the theft on his blog, saying there was “an armed robbery carried out by six men.” The match resumed after four hours .

According to the Center of financial regulation on the Internet, nearly 400 of the participants in the five-day long competition on Wednesday. Most, however, had dropped out of the game by Saturday, including the German tennis legend Boris Becker.

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