(Yikes, the same thing happened in Dallas a year or so ago in an incident where the attempted robbers also struggled with the door, but I don’t think they got in.)

And interesting about North Arlington … I had been hearing South from everywhere … but could be wrong on this.

By the way, does anyone want to give the name of the club and who ran it?

>>>i wouldn’t say they were shady, they just weren’t friendly. they acted more like bouncers and not like hosts. but that night i didn’t see any dice action, drug dealin or xbox/ps action.<<<

I just hope people realize that what happened at this game is NOT the standard. From what I am hearing, this was a bad game … full of poker exiles.

Perhaps the Poker Bandits bit off a little more than they could chew this time. (Or they were different, less experienced robbers.) I hate that writing this might hurt business for the good folks … but, it’s not like we can ignore it.

And it’s a shame that police can’t work with a poker room or two to catch the armed robbers.

Maybe next year we’ll have more success with the Texas Legislature to protect poker citizens … but until then, we just have to hope no one else dies. I gotta think the robbers might be laying low for a while, being that they just killed someone … but at the same time, maybe they care even less about not shooting people knowing they are kinda fucked eventually.

Writing up this robbery is a public service to warn poker players about the most serious part of it. Here in Texas, poker is illegal and it makes everything different from some other states, but no different from the old days.

/my aren’t these laces tasty

I can tell you my info comes from three sources — all secondhand. One of these sources is extremely reliable, another is someone new to me who certainly talked like he knew what he was talking about and said other stuff that made me think he had no reason to distort any facts, and the other is generally reliable … and the things that i wasn’t so sure about checked out with what the other sources were saying.

An example of a fact I didn’t thoroughly check is the XBox. There’s a fair possibility it coulda been a Playstation.

I don’t think the dice thing happened all the time — not organized or anything — but it supposedly happened more than once.

I left out information that I haven’t been able to confirm — that there were some middle-management level drug dealers there … but that’s what people are saying.

I also am hearing from one reliable source that one person in attendance at this game was the last guy called by the phone of the robbers who hit The Office. (One of the bad guys dropped his cell phone in that robbery … so people know who those robbers were, who would have to be at least suspects in this case.)

To be sure, one person has died here and at least two others are/should be headed to prison … so I take this shit pretty seriously and don’t want to be throwing around misinformation. So indeed, any who have info contrary to what I have purportedly learned, don’t hesitate to let me know.

For what it’s worth, I haven’t even confirmed the exact location yet, other than that it was in south Arlington and wasn’t the Longhorn Room.

- no dice rolling
- no xbox gambling
- no thugs
etc

The ownership of the place changed hands right about when I had to cash out my bankroll. Hadn’t been to the place under the new management.

Either there was a severe change in the type of players that showed up to that card room, or you’re espousing shitty journalism. I wish I had played there in the last 6 months so I could point out yet another blogger that doesn’t check facts, but that would make me a hypocrite.

Let’s just say that I’m a former regular totally disagrees with the picture you’ve painted in this article.

- C

What a pussy.

also, i’m not gonna call you a pussy for your write-them-a-check comment, but i think it’s only a natural reaction when a dude with a gun is trying to push in a door to try to push back and stop him from getting in. i can’t help but think what some simple pepper spray through the crack coulda done in this situation.

also also, no offense, but i’m seriously questioning your Texas gun knowledge now … i know multiple people who carry CHL’s and guns in there cars. when they get pulled over by police, they always show the CHL with their driver’s license — to let the cops know they have a gun in their car — and the police almost always seem to treat them extra-good at that point. Cops hate guns in cars, unless you have a CHL, at which point they tend to love them.

I’m not joking … I know of multiple incidents where this has happened … and the cop starts asking, “what kinda gun? do you like it? what kind of bullets you using?” and then eventually let the guy off without giving him a ticket.

I can think of a few robbers killed here in West Texas, and Iron Drawers killed by a robber. I’d advise carrying a gun in your car and not getting a license, because you got to show it to every Texas cop you encounter and it leads to cars being searched. A gun charge beats not having a fire arm handy. I have fired over the heads of lots and lots of people. Hope I never have to shoot anybody.

i stoped playing there when i got the feel that players were coluding(sp).

until texas makes this a legal practice there will contuine to be this kind of activity. exactly the reason i “retired” from the underground scene.

http://www.pokerpages.com/articles/players/johnny-hughes06.htm