Here\’s a video of the bust in Mission, TX … clearly a residential home with a weekly tourney that may or may not shoulda been shut down. (Don\’t shoot me for saying this, but I gotta think the non-poker residents […]
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Perhaps inspired by the amount of money police forces take in from poker raids, police in Port Arthur, Texas, raided an internet cafe that was allowing patrons to gamble online — the first bust of its kind in our nation\’s
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Online phenom-turned-live-action-threat Gobboboy makes peace with Howard Lederer at the PPA Booth in the Amazon hallway. Of the many groups with a presence at the 2008 WSOP, the Poker Players Alliance is doing its best to let the amateur players
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It was indeed another undercover narcotics investigation followed by a paramilitary SWAT-team incursion: Hurst police said they found two dozen people inside the home, which had tables, dealers and even a banker, and was set up to look like Las
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A poker room in Hurst (a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth) got raided Thursday or Friday night. I have few details — perhaps some Pokeratizens can fill us in on the game action, weapons in play, arrests made, etc.?
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Oops, while rambling on in the previous post, i forgot to share with you the email Alfonse D\’Amato sent out today that made me start writing it. He makes some good points while, of course, also trying to give away
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Had a pleasant chat with PPA boss John Pappas yesterday about the state of poker legislation. \”We have a new website!\” he says. OK, that quote\’s semi-made up, but he definitely wanted to pimp the Poker Players Alliance\’s new forums,
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Not super-related to poker … but as Houston poker-raid cases make their way through the notably harsh Harris County court system, I couldn\’t help but think about how in Texas, playing underground poker is basically the same crime as decapitating
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Harris County sheriff\’s deputies raided a poker room on the northwest outskirts of Houston this afternoon. There were about 8 tables of action — a $300 tournament had just gotten underway — and 11 were arrested. Police say the raid
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In this week\’s episode: There\’s No Cheating in Online Poker! Now that we have your attention… We thought that we should let ya know that some companies are boldly selling poker bot software for under $200, claiming big returns on
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