Comments on: InstaPoker (Dallas SWAT edition)

By: Scott Chaffin

Scott Chaffin — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:14:08 +0000

My question is why was Ch. 11 there for the raid and the other channel not?

Where’s Sarah Dodd work these days?

By: DanM

DanM — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:01:45 +0000

Intan, these places are definitely not run by the same people. at best they are friendly adversaries who occasionally face of at a poker table somewhere. dallas underground poker is about as disorganized of a “crime” as you can find.

(no offense to my good friends who run poker rooms — please don’t send the hitmen out to kill me.)

By: Intan

Intan — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:51:48 +0000

Are these places all run by the same group? It looks like the same group runs multiple places and Dallas police are just trying to take them down.

By: jackietrehorn

jackietrehorn — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:27:59 +0000

My question is why was Ch. 11 there for the raid and the other channel not? The only reason is that Ch. 11 had an inside track on where and when the raid was taking place. How could that be? Did the police tip off the station (for their own PR purposes) or did the station tip off the police on the games? Definitely there had to be some communication between the two. Just sayin’

By: Bob Johnson

Bob Johnson — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:25:49 +0000

Any further news\confirmation about federal or irs involvement?

By: Venita

Venita — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:27:08 +0000

I happened to find myself playing beside a former Houston PD narcotics officer at Winstar last Wednesday nite (yes, I had to drive an hour to play poker!!), and of course the talk turned to the raids. I mentioned that I thought the Dallas SWAT debacle could have been SO dangerous, and he wholeheartedly agreed with me. He mentioned that if someone had happened to make a false move, such as put their hand in their pocket, it could have been a really bad scene.

By the way, I’ve been to Winstar twice since the raids . . . I’m seeing a lot of familiar faces.

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By: onespadefourhearts

onespadefourhearts — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 04:16:21 +0000

dan can you please explain to me why when the raids went down did they take all the tvs and other items at ace high and not jackies…i was told by friends at ace high they saw swat taking the big screens and plasmas but in the story about jackies, looters took all the tvs from there…why is that? what makes the two place different? would that hold any value to the court cases? also what about jbs did they take all the tvs and other items there like jackies or ace high?

By: Phoenix

Phoenix — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 23:31:29 +0000

It looks like North Dakota is the best place to have a poker house. The map shows no police action there, lets go!

By: SANBOB

SANBOB — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:58:30 +0000

The thing that puzzles me is all the time the city is spending on these raids to get a bunch of misdemeanor charges. Shouldn’t the SWAT be used only strictly for felony cases. Could you imagine if SWAT would be used to serve all the misdemeanor warrants. I might be looking down the barrel of a machine gun the next time I forget to pay a traffic ticket.

By: Dominick

Dominick — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 21:09:03 +0000

I still can’t get over how the City of Dallas used these poker rooms to stage these bull-shit raids. I have live and traveled all over the country (now reside in Dallas) and to witness this level of brutally, rudness and waste of tax payers dollars will be hard to forget. Having played at Jackieâ€™s this past year it was no surprise that no drugs or guns were found. It was a great place to play cards. I hope they find a way to re-open somewhere else, but again once the city needs to show some strength they would just do it again.

This really sucks; I could type forever venting my frustration, what a fucking waste. Nice job SWAT team hope you went home that night knowing that you busted a great group of people and left the city a little safer, yea right…

By: stevetel

stevetel — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 20:32:06 +0000

So, after carefully considering the entire situation, the most likely purpose of the raid is to benefit the Indian Casinos in Oklahoma by closing Dallas underground poker rooms. And, the most likely reason for using SWAT was to get some TV time and exposure for the A&E program as well as to give Channel 11 news something to boost a pathetic news programs sweep week ratings.

Now, you tell me, where’s the real crime in this whole episode? I would love to see this put it in front of a jury to see what they had to say.

By the way, I was at one of these rooms when it went down and the careless, brutal and rude attitudes of the police officers involved was appalling. It is obvious that the psychological profiling used to screen the officers on the DPD SWAT teams is terribly inadaquate.

These officers, sworn to protect and serve, were totally over the top in the way they treated people who were doing nothing but playing cards. Of course, as I have said over and over again in these discussions, it is much safer to raid a poker game than to be out trying to catch real criminals!

Cowards and bullies…not everyone of them…but enough of them to make me sick…to treat people as I witnessed on Friday November 17 makes me ashamed to live in Texas and that’s something I never thought I would have to say.