Originally Posted by theywontpayontuesday View Post
What are the damages? What happens next?
No damages, aside from the reputations of Vital Vegas (already flawed), Casino.org, and the Guinness Book of World Records.

I wouldn't call this a scandal, as it's mostly victimless, but it just feels gross. If you're going to build a gimmick around breaking a niche gambling record, at least do it honestly. The fact that Guinness markedly changed their definition of a "casino visit", once a new record was attempt was backed by deep pocketed sponsors, really gives the community (and Vegas) a bad look.

These types of records can be fun for the casual fan of Vegas, but this backfired badly, and just gives off the vibe of shady casinos and shady gambling media rigging a challenge.

From what I'm hearing, VitalVegas is very butthurt over this, as he was naive enough to believe that his followers were too dumb to question this, and Mehaffey's (spot on) analysis ruined the entire ruse.