The armed robbery of what looks like probably a 5/10 game was the lead story on KXAN\’s 6 pm broadcast … and they spoke to longtime friend of Pokerati (and Texas state director of the PPA) Lavigne in Austin about […]
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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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The robbers were almost definitely amateur thieves, allegedly. Their names: Chaz White and Travis Thomas, ages 18 and 19. One of these fellas supposedly had played in the game recently while the other watched. They have been charged with aggravated
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Details still coming it … but so far it sounds like the feel-good poker robbery of the year: Last night two masked, pistol-wielding youngins reportedly ganked about $7,000 from a NL Hold\’em game of mostly retired old-school Texas rounders (ages
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
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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
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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
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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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As Kevin noticed early this AM (before my post from yesterday doubting the notion went live), Texas\’ HB 222 has moved out of the Calendars Committee and is scheduled for a vote on the House floor tomorrow … which means
Texas Poker Bill to Get Its House Vote Austin game violently robbed
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It\’s true. And she\’s been palling around with druggies and convicts just so she can \”write about it\” and (don\’t tell anyone I said this) I\’m even hearing unconfirmed, squalidly detailed rumors from an imaginary source that she\’s got a
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