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 […]
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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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Sh*t hitting fan (?) in Dallas Underground
Aces just got busted. Cops came in with a swat team and TV news crews. All players ticketed (except for those who didn\’t listen to the cops who said, \”Don\’t move,\” and got up from the table). Dealers arrested. Also
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Re: Undercover Underground
FrontBurner reports on the outing of Dallas poker rooms. Well done, Paul K. Way to be on top of things … except for the mistake you have about Top Shelf being on Walnut Ridge. (It is not … the other
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Bad Flop Alert
I should be working (or cleaning) right now … but instead I am watching Full Tilt Poker.net Pro Showdown — an awesome live-tourney/infomercial. Seven Full Tilt pros … competing for a $1 million prize pool. (With four left and three
Out of Context: The Wisdom of Tulsa
An email exchange earlier today: —–Original Message—– From: Eric C Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2006 5:47 PM To: danm Subject: RE: vegas flight schedules Look, you can\’t avoid poker because you are scared to lose money. For if you did,
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Instapoker
It\’s hard to think about poker when the US is about to take on Ghana … and then \”Go Italy!\” later in the afternoon at the same time on ESPN2. Still, somewhere in the world (many places, in fact) the
