A week later, I wasn't surprised at all, to read in the Tampa Bay News an article relating to an off-duty city police officer being arrested by the Seminole Hard Rock Police for having one too many drinks.
The Hard Rock enforces whatever rules they feel enacting. Looking back, when I first started visiting the Tampa Hard Rock Casino in 2008 to what the Hard Rock is today in 2018, despite all their renovations and expansions relative to their facility, I feel customer service has bottomed out. After this incident, I starting thinking to myself - people are there to spend money, eat and perhaps have a few drinks at the bar. Luckily, I was able to bond out of jail with the winnings from the Hard Rock. Rather than escorting me off the premise, I was arrested. To my dismay and surprise, I was told I had been lifetime banned from the casino. A month later, I re-visited the Tampa Hard Rock Casino, and I was doing really well at the tables when suddenly security showed up and detained me. I thought it was really generously of them to do that! You know - look out for the well-being of someone who might had partied too much that night. Recently, after having one too many drinks, the Hard Rock comp'd me a taxi home, and asked I not come back.
It seems as if I know most of the employees there at the poker room. As a military veteran who served his country proudly, I've been going to the Tampa Hard Rock Casino for 10-years.
