Robber Shot And Killed Trying To Rob Houston Poker Game

[FCP Bob 1,311]

When I read this story the first thing that crossed my mind was whether a certain heavily armed FCPer was visiting Texas.What I take from stories like this is there is a lot of danger in playing in Underground games and it's just really too bad that politicians in places like Texas don't allow live legal poker clubs. I've never been robbed myself but I have good friends who have been at underground games or in the parking lot of them.I don't want to get into a whole should you pack heat to a game debate but if I were going to a game in Texas I would probably feel better if I trusted the organizer of the game and he or his security were armed. That isn't the same as a fun home poker game in somebody's home but a commercial game in an industrial unit.There's also a video report at the newspaper link.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/6600538.html

Police: Player at card game kills robbery suspectBy DALE LEZONHOUSTON CHRONICLESept. 3, 2009, 7:45PM A poker player shot to death a man who tried to rob him and others during a card game in southwest Houston early Thursday, police said.Three masked men ambushed a card game occurring inside an unmarked office park unit behind a shopping center in the 5600 block of Hillcroft just south of Westpark, police said. The gunmen burst in through the open door at about 2 a.m. and began robbing patrons, one of whom pulled his own pistol, said Sgt. Juan M. De La Cruz, a Houston homicide detective. They exchanged gunfire. One of the robbers was killed.A patron was who was injured was taken to a nearby hospital. Police, who found multiple 9mm shell casings at the scene, say the other two robbers fled.dale.lezon@chron.com

[Balloon guy 158]

And that's what makes America great.A guy is illegally playing cards in a building and gets to shoot someone who tried to rob him.And at worst he will get tried for the card playing.

[Merby 3]

And that's what makes America great.A guy is illegally playing cards in a building and gets to shoot someone who tried to rob him.And at worst he will get tried for the card playing.

Actually, the story says that it might be a perfectly legal card game:

De La Cruz said the gambling matter would be turned over to the vice squad, but it wasn't clear whether the game was illegal. In Texas, there's nothing wrong with money changing hands in poker and other games as long as someone isn't taking a cut.

Nevertheless, the vice squad will at least investigate. Of course, all Texans make unfair generalizations, so the vice squad will no doubt generalize the underground card game as illegal and arrest the players.

[FCP Bob 1,311]

Here's a story that I just came across that didn't have a happy ending for the poker players from last night.There's a video story at the link.http://www.wkrn.com/global/story.asp?s=11112945

Man shot, killed after poker gamePosted: Sep 11, 2009 8:29 AM EDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. - An investigation is underway in the Cane Ridge area after a man was shot and killed following a poker game.Metro police said the man, identified as "Jack", was shot early Friday morning, at about 1:15 a.m., outside a home off Old Hickory Boulevard near Burkitt Road.Officers said the man was shot in the backyard of the house and may have been trying to protect a friend.According to sources, a poker game was going on inside when Jack saw on a video surveillance system a suspect trying to rob another poker player in the backyard.The sources said Jack went into the backyard with a gun to scare off the suspect and the suspect opened fired, shooting him in the head.Metro Police Department Capt. Harmon Hunsicker told News 2 the shooting was not a random act of crime."We do not believe at this time that this was a random act," Hunsicker said. "We believe that this was a targeted house by the suspect and we do believe that the resident and the suspect were involved in a gunfight and the resident here has died from that gunfight."According to the sources, the house had a lot of poker equipment inside, and it was possible numerous poker games were played at the house.Police are investigating the possibility that the gunman knew about the poker games and went to the house knowing the people there might have large amounts of money.Police are trying to develop a suspect description.

[staniv 0]

Yea in January the card game I played in every Friday was robbed at gun point then week later the game i played in sat-thursday this happendhttp://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/o...omicideweb.htmlmy favorite around here happened few years ago in 05' this game still runs at this place btw. they only quit for about 2 weeks> Gunmen rob 12 people at Riverside poker club> By Mehul Srivastava>> Dayton Daily News>> RIVERSIDE | Four armed men robbed a poker club off Valley Street early> Friday morning, and then left the 12 men and women tied up, naked, with> their shoelaces and belts, said Riverside Police.>> "I think it was part of the plan, to delay the folks from calling the> police," said detective Kolby Watson.>> The private club usually has its door locked, Kolby said, but one of the> robbers, with his face covered in a ski mask, waited for someone to walk> outside, grabbed him and forced his way inside.>> Once inside, they robbed the poker players, taking cash and credit cards> from their wallets, Watson said.>> The four men, armed with two assault rifles and two handguns, then forced> the victims to strip, and cut up their clothes.>> About an hour after the crime began, police received a call from a> payphone.> Officers driving up Valley Street saw some of the victims walking out of> the> club covered in trash bags.>> "I am sure they had to get the gumption up to walk out the door with no> clothes on," said Watson.>> No one appeared to have been hurt during the incident, Watson said. It the chance you take playin at any game not at casino. once people find out there some money to be made. they usually want a piece

[20TN40 0]

Should we PM DNA for details?

Here's a story that I just came across that didn't have a happy ending for the poker players from last night.There's a video story at the link.http://www.wkrn.com/global/story.asp?s=11112945