A picture is worth …
Deco Chic\’s photos from the TOC are trickling in … you\’ll see more of them in due time. But I just had to share this one of the #1 and #2 ranked Lodge players … for a variety of reasons.
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Never mind, it’s hopeless …
The city of Dallas is cracking down on unpaid parking tickets. Looks like a good time to be in the handcuff business. Via FrontBurner
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How a Thought Becomes a Law
And with proper discourse, so the wheels begin to turn … check out the Bud Kennedy column in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram about the prospects for more-legal gambling in Texas. As I started reading, I began to grumble a bit
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Aces’ post-jail spam
Got an email from Aces … and though I am pretty sure about 85 percent of all Pokerati readers have received the same email two or three times already: Thank you for your patronage. First off, we would like to
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Who’s Going to the World Series?
Reggie Perry, that\’s who. Congratulations to \”Sarge\” for winning the Lodge TOC. It was a good match … the whole of which turned on one significant hand … when Greg Miles pushed in with his AJ on the button, only
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Big Shiny Prizes
If you’re playing in the Lodge TOC today/tomorrow, you should be asleep right now. The rest of you can enjoy a sneak peak at what is arguably the coolest poker trophy to date. Big prizes on the line … the
A tournament that didn’t get busted
Aces was hardly the only action in town on Saturday. Apparently, there was a big charity tourney in Garland that went off without a hitch. The \”Annual All-In for the Kids Texas Hold\’em Tournament\” … or something close to that
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Birth of a Crackdown?
I\’m not ready to declare the sky on Dallas poker falling, but it has for certain turned rather green. (Look, over there! I think it\’s a wall cloud!) With the Channel 8 \”expose\” and the Dallas SWAT raid … there\’s
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More on the Aces raid (2)
Some finer details, from a reliable firsthand source: 12-15 SWAT guys, carrying M16s and MP5s. Most of them were professional and courteous in their show of overwhelming force, but there were \”a couple macho SWAT-type assholes.\” 15-20 more uniformed officers
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More on the Aces raid
Some basics trickling in: Raid went down about 9 pm. Aces was in the middle of an 8-table tourney … with a few tables of cash games and sit-n-go\’s running. About 10 people got carted away in handcuffs — dealers
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