This one apparently happened a few days ago in Houston. They were playing 1/2 NLH/PLO (interesting game selection) … and the game was running a bit bigger than usual. According to one player who was there, about $8,000 was on […]
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Barron Boutte, 1985-2009 The funeral for Barron Glenn Boutte is today in Houston. He\’s the 24-year-old shot and killed while attempting to rob a Houston underground poker room earlier this month. His shooter is not being publicly identified, though police
RE: Houston Poker Room Gun Battle (3) More details emerge as fallen robber is buried
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Here\’s the complete criminal record of Barron Glenn Boutte, the poker robber shot and killed in Houston last week. A lot of marijuana charges and some evading arrests. Pretty petty thuggish. Not a surprise that robbing a poker room seemed
RE: Houston Poker Room Gun Battle (2) Attempted robber’s criminal record
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The story behind an underground game in Houston that broke with a flurry of bullets last week — resulting in one fatality and two others wounded — is starting to emerge. Filtering through braggadocio, legal ambiguities, and the inherent fuzziness
RE: Houston Poker Room Gun Battle More details, some questions, progression of violence
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Details are just coming in, but it took place in an underground game in southwest Houston late Wednesday night … Three armed gunmen burst into a strip-mall game to rob it, and one of the players pulled out his own
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Carris Outduels Somerville in Shootout Jeffrey Carris was the last one standing in the $1,500 NL Holdem Shootout besting Jason Somerville in a brief heads-up battle as noted by Dan in the post below me. Carris collects over $300,000, while
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Very few details … so by all means, please send them along if you have any … but Harris County Sheriff\’s Deputies in Spring, TX (north of Houston), are saying an altercation at a poker game Saturday night resulted in
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KTRH-AM 740 out of Houston followed up the Morning News story about our efforts to legalize poker in Texas with one of their own. In their piece, the opposition claims we poker liberators* are simply seeking a regressive tax that
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Recapping last night with a preview of Sunday activities: In the $1,500 NL holdem event, Jesper Hougaard returned from the dinner break seemingly in better spirits, as he was able to recover from giving up a 6.5-1 chip lead to
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What\’s happening at the WSOP while GSN considers picking up a new show, High Stakes Dice. Speaking of Ivey, he\’s currently in the top 10 at the $5,000 NL 2-7 KC Lowball event. Tom Dwan currently is chip leader at
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