Wong said she did keep a notebook full of names and phone numbers - a practice, she said, that is commonplace in the gambling business. Though Wong did have access to the list, she was not permitted to print it out.

The 20 people she emailed, Wong said, were clients she met personally, and did not come from the client list database. Wong said she declined to sign a non-compete contract presented to her months into her employment, prompting her to resign from Maryland Live. Maryland is now host to five full-service casinos, and is expecting a sixth in 2016.īut Wong, who took the stand, maintained she did nothing wrong. 22 accusing her of misappropriating 'sensitive, confidential and proprietary information' in the form of 'a list containing the names and contact information of Maryland Live's most valuable customers.' The suit underscores an atmosphere of fierce competition in Maryland, which is poised to become a gambling hotspot. Maryland Live filed a suit against Wong on Aug. This is a confidential email between us.' The second asked the roughly 20 recipients of the email 'PLEASE DO NOT repeat or show this email to any of MD Live's personnel. The first invited him to tour Horseshoe, and offered 'a night or two' of play. The casino sued Wong last week after a Maryland Live client, identified in court papers only as Customer A, forwarded a pair of emails he received from Wong on Aug.

The ruling comes after Maryland Live, located just 12 miles away from Horseshoe, accused Wong in a lawsuit of stealing a proprietary list of more than 1,000 dice-tossing, lever-pulling, big-spending high-rollers - an elite group of gamblers whose business is worth 'hundreds of millions of dollars,' according to a Maryland Live Senior Vice President of Marketing Mario Maesano, who testified in court Friday. On Friday, a federal judge slapped the VIP hostess at the brand new Horseshoe Casino in Baltimore with a preliminary injunction barring her from contacting a list of clients she collected at her last job, at the Maryland Live Casino in Hanover. BALTIMORE (AP) - Casino hostess Helena Wong isn't having much luck.

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