Aces

Word of the SWAT-team poker raid in Dallas is making the rounds. The Daily Kos took note, as well as a few other political websites. Cool. And most recently, I came across this from the CATO institute. Just to set […]

LAS VEGAS–Sorry for the lack of posts … have been particularly busy with various other criminally questionable? sweet gigs. I know a lot of folks have been visiting — as I do monitor my traffic now and again to learn

\”Dallas Attorney\” posts an interesting piece of non-binding legal advice in his comment about the 80-or-so Dallas poker players who now face legal ramifications for playing the game. I totally agree — and encourage all to plea not-guilty and insist

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

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

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

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