Re: Another Another Austin Raid

More on Sunday\’s police incursion in the Austin underground … Sources of unconfirmed but presumed reliability tell Pokerati:

\”The guy running this game is a crook and in the last hour I have gotten several calls that he is about to do an \’I am taking everyone with me\’ move!\”

Yeesh, true or not, I remember when you used to hear this kinda stuff around Dallas … as the market got saturated, so many games were getting dirtier, or at least accused of being dirtier … and I gotta say, only semi-related, Dallas people, isn\’t our little poker community a lot nicer and friendlier these days without the advertising on Pokerati hyperaggressive marketing, cut-throat competition, and general nastiness associated with desperate attempts to make a big game?


Here\’s a tip for all the Austin poker-room tough guys out there … one homicide … that\’s all you need. If your mini-criminal quest to corner the Austin poker biz could somehow lead to a violent death, that would be so awesome. I mean think about it … lots of money in play, heated competition … a little backstab here, a little double-cross there, and whammo! A premeditated or even accidental killing would not only kill the Austin poker scene shrink the Austin poker scene down to a more manageable size, but also it would give me a GREAT story (the kind that could finally get me back into Texas Monthly).

Positively Sixth Street, baby!