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Don't the police honestly have anything better to do. People are getting murdered, assaulted, raped, robbed, molested, and our country is a prime location for terrorist attacks and our police forces are concerned with breaking up poker games.Wow no wonder every other country thinks we are retards...
Gimme a freaking break. What do you want, a moratorium on non-violent crime enforcement until all major crime is eliminated from society? Illegal activity was busted. Cops doing their jobs, give them a break.
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A buddy of mine wanted me to go to this game last night. He told me it was a $1K buy-in not $10K. Now I have two reasons to be thankful I'm sick.

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So what "known" or "famous" people got busted besides Disco Inferno?

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If you lived on that street and you were constantly getting your driveway blocked and having a hard time getting to and from your residence, and then called the police to sort it out, you'd expect something to be done right?
Yes. The proper thing for the police to do is ticket every single car that is illegally parked. That is the infraction that was committed. If those same people park illegally next time, ticket them again. If they are truly causing problems with access to the neighborhood, tow their stupid cards away.That's addressing the problem with a suitable solution.
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Gimme a freaking break. What do you want, a moratorium on non-violent crime enforcement until all major crime is eliminated from society? Illegal activity was busted. Cops doing their jobs, give them a break.
There's a big difference between "non-violent crime" and "victimless crimes". Think about it.
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I can't. It's a personal thing to be. BTDT (for non-poker stuff)As an aside, I can say with complete confidence that Atlanta has some of the hottest home poker action of any major city. $1K, $5K and $10K buys are a regular thing- cash games with the fishiest fish stacked low-five figures deep... The closest competitor is NYC and Austin, but Atlanta is right there with them.
Austin has games of this magnitude?wow, I know there is quite a few games here, but didnt know there were any with limits like thatp.s. - please feel free to pm me with any good low limit games ($1-$2, maybee $2-$5) :club:
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I can't watch the video right now at work so I don't know if this was mentioned on it, but one of the people busted was former WCW and TNA wrestler Disco Inferno...
Yeah I just read about him.Late Monday night during a gambling bust involving high stakes no limit hold-em poker in Roswell, Georgia, former TNA and WCW star Disco Inferno Glen Gilberti was among those arrested. For six months now, local police have been investigating the gambling ring after several complaints from neighbors about the amount of people coming to and from the home.Gamblers would have to pay a fee of $10,000 to get into the game with the basement of a home on Nesbit Ridge Drive converted to look like a casino. Players would sign up and pay a $10,000 entrance fee online, then receive an invitation to location of the game. A game was ongoing during the bust with some found holding poker chips and waitresses serving drinks.Roswell police Sgt. B.C. Brackett told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "I've been with the city for going on 27 years, and I've not seen an operation like this in my tenure."Twenty-seven people were arrested with two, Gilberti and an accomplice, charged with felony gambling charges. The others were expected to be charged with misdemeanors. 20 cars, one of which contained over 200 ecstacy pills, were also impounded.The gambling bust made all of the local newscasts and newspapers in the Atlanta market, but at this point, Gilberti's past as a professional wrestler has not been noted.Gilberti, doing his 1970s Disco throwback character as a takeoff of John Travolta in "Staying Alive" was a regular with World Championship Wrestling from the mid-1990s to the end of the company when it was sold to World Wrestling Entertainment in 2001. Gilberti became a TNA regular and was with the company for much of its run in Nashville, TN as a weekly PPV series. He received a tryout as an agent for TNA last year as well but wasn't hired for the position.Nationally, Gilberti was last seen wrestling Koko B. Ware as part of the World Wrestling Legends PPV in Orlando, Florida in March 2006.07.jpg
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Great usage of the swat team. They should have thrown tear gas threw the window to make sure no one got away.
Get those bad men with the riot sticks and bean-bag shot guns! Man, would that have made a story or what?
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All the issues with the cops aside, I still say why have this level of a game at a house in the 'burbs. You absolutely know that the cranky lady next door is gonna complain about cars being all up and down the street. I bet you could rent a hotel conference room, say it's a private party, and no one would bother you. I dunno.
thats what they do on the sopranos :club:
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This is so freakin stupid. Its a 10 grand buy in yet only 40 grand was confiscated? So 20 cars out front and yet only 4 people had actually bought into the game?This is just another BS bust put on by the cops to try and prove their "task force" is actually amounting to something.

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There certainly seems to be an overabundance of cop haters here.Can we assume that you all are currently pursuing law enforcement, political, or legal careers so that you can change the system ?You are all eager to pay signifigantly higher property taxes to pay for Masters prepared law enforcement ? You really think it would be a good idea for cops to decide amoungst themselves which laws they will enforce or not ? You really can't see any potential problems with that plan ?

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You are all eager to pay signifigantly higher property taxes to pay for Masters prepared law enforcement ?
Hahahahahahahahaha.... What (cop educated) bullshit. I just did the math for my town. ( (X) number of law enforcement officers per citizen, (Y) numbers of citizens, (Z) is what each Law Enforcement Officer is paid- (Z) represents (A%) of of our property tax formula)If we were to fully double figure (Z) by requiring highly educated Law Enforcement officers (Ala Germany, Great Britain, France, etc...), it would represent LESS THAN A 1% INCREASE of (A). Even in small towns where civil staffing expenditures represent a significant portion of the budget, we're still talking less than 5% increase in cost for what probably amounts to a 100% increase in the quality of the officers.A huge portion of the local law enforcement officers we have now would be considered too stupid to be hired onto any low level corporate job- they're basically about on par with the garbage man or road striper (bless garbage men and road stripers), yet we give these idiots the power to completely screw peoples lives?
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_56314.htmlPolice reject candidate for being too intelligentA US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring too high on an intelligence test....
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I for one would gladly pay more taxes for better law enforcement.. I am sick of all the freakin short man complex, power hungry rednecks bothering me..I have been arrested for BS before and had to spend lots of money defending myself.. that sucksI threw my old water heater in someone elses dumpster one time.. I know it was wrong, but 1 year later a cop was waiting at my house dressed in normal clothes, handcuffed me in my front yard in front of my neighbors and took me to jail... I got to spend a full day in jail and thousands of dollars on attourneys fees, probation fees, community service etc.. sucked big time.. not too mention it kept me from getting a killer job at Dell that I had already been hired for.. pending thhe result of my criminal background check.. nice.. I hate having money anyway..you know what? none of the money I was taxed was given to the owner of the dumpster (the ONLY person I wronged)..sure what I did was wrong, but I dont believe the punishment fit the crime.. just stupid rednecks trying to boost the county's revenueI was charged with "illegal dumping", a misdemeanor, and I still got hosed.. I think innocent till proven guilty is a myth in this country... if you dont have money, you get to stay in jail untill your trial.. that sounds like guilty untill proven innocent to me.. I know you cant just let em all go, but heaven forbid they put a freakin ankle braclet on them untill the trial.. that seems like a well suited solution to me..end rant

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Can we assume that you all are currently pursuing law enforcement, political, or legal careers so that you can change the system ?
What a crock of ****. So I can't go on record saying rapists suck unless I plan on becoming a rape counseler? Nobody is allowed to point out a problem they see unless they are going to become a activist and try and change the world? Thats the hideout of the ignorant. The "I disagree with you but am not smart enough to debate it intelligently so I will instead ask you to do something I know you can't, ie change the system, so I will win by deafult".
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All you guys who hate cops in the USA, try the 3rd world on for size.Here in Central America the Policia are involved in home breakins, killings and holding hostages for ransom. You are living in a dream world if all you have to do is be carefull about how you play poker.

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What a crock of ****. So I can't go on record saying rapists suck unless I plan on becoming a rape counseler? Nobody is allowed to point out a problem they see unless they are going to become a activist and try and change the world? Thats the hideout of the ignorant. The "I disagree with you but am not smart enough to debate it intelligently so I will instead ask you to do something I know you can't, ie change the system, so I will win by deafult".
You're comparing apples and oranges. The problem isn't that you are making commentary without working toward a solution (speak against rapists = must become rape counselor). The problem is that people are mischaracterizing the function of the police, which is to UPHOLD the law. The argument that police should be out enforcing the law with respect to crimes we personally find more offensive suggests that they should have a degree of latitude in enforcement that I am not prepared to sign off on lightly.If people have a problem with poker raids, they should start with the legislators who make the conduct illegal, not the people who enforce the law. Nobody is saying you have to change the system; they're simply saying you should focus your anger on the source of the problem, rather than use police as a scapegoat. The argument presents a slippery slope... If we would prefer that police "look the other way" in enforcing poker laws in favor of catching drug dealers, should they look the other way for drug dealers in favor of catching rapists? Should they look the other way in catching rapists because they could be out stopping murder? The fact that resources could be spent enforcing laws we deem more important doesn't add up to a compelling argument that police should ignore the other laws on the books. If that were the case, laws that punish crimes short of felonies would have no real effect. If it's your position that these laws should have no real effect, then the logical course of action would be to lobby to have them taken off the books -- not to undermine our entire justice system by placing the burden on unelected officers to selectively ignore laws that seem trivial.
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Okay, comparing 3rd world countries to this situation is in no way relevant to this discussion.We are talking about U.S. police officers and simply saying that there are a lot worse things going on in our country right now then breaking up poker games.And for the poster asked if we want the cops to decide what laws to enforce amongst themselves. No we are not asking for that to happen. What I am saying is that our government should have no say in who gambles and who doesnt. I can see them putting certain restrictions on it, but my main point is that our cops should be trying to solve our countrys bigger problems and threats before they start going after poker games.I'm all for enforcing our country's laws. While I don't agree with all of them, I still see the need to enforce them. I just think we ought to have priorities.I go to college at a university. Drugs on campus and in dorms are present, sexual assaults and robberies take place on campus, and the percentage of underage drinkers / and drunk drivers in our town is off the charts. Yet the other day I saw a police officer writing people citations for jaywalking. No Joke

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Okay, comparing 3rd world countries to this situation is in no way relevant to this discussion.We are talking about U.S. police officers and simply saying that there are a lot worse things going on in our country right now then breaking up poker games.And for the poster asked if we want the cops to decide what laws to enforce amongst themselves. No we are not asking for that to happen. What I am saying is that our government should have no say in who gambles and who doesnt. I can see them putting certain restrictions on it, but my main point is that our cops should be trying to solve our countrys bigger problems and threats before they start going after poker games.I'm all for enforcing our country's laws. While I don't agree with all of them, I still see the need to enforce them. I just think we ought to have priorities.I go to college at a university. Drugs on campus and in dorms are present, sexual assaults and robberies take place on campus, and the percentage of underage drinkers / and drunk drivers in our town is off the charts. Yet the other day I saw a police officer writing people citations for jaywalking. No Joke
The bolded statements highlight the problem with the argument. If cops have license to "solve" any problems, and to make individual determinations as to which problems to "solve," then you have by logical extension granted them the authority "to decide what laws to enforce amongst themselves."Prioritizing the enforcement of crimes is not a justification for ignoring the smaller ones, like jaywalking. Your argument assumes that for every poker game being busted, one more drug dealer or rapist or murderer is going free. What people fail to acknowledge is that other officers are out trying to enforce laws against drugs, rape, and murder. Do they catch everyone? Of course not. Is every home poker game busted? Of course not. If it makes you feel better, I'm fairly certain that more resources are devoted to catching rapists and murderers in Atlanta than are devoted to busting home poker games.People here have been seizing on an anecdote about a high-profile game getting taken down in one city, and turning into an indictment of police everywhere who could be "out doing better things." If out doing better things doesn't include enforcing laws that are on the books, then I don't want any part of it. If you give authority to police to exercise independent judgment in "solving" problems, then you've effectively signed off on a police state where people we don't elect dictate our conduct simply because they passed a civil servant exam.I really hate rapists, so I think I'll join the force so I can carry out my personal vendetta against all rapists... Bud White, LA Confidential-style. But murder doesn't bother me so much, because I think most people who are killed deserve it. I know, my morality is twisted, but that's my interpretation of how best to "solve" society's problems. If I'm given a murder case, I'll just gloss over the evidence and label the case "unsolved" so I can get back to fighting rapists. Give me a badge.
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I can't watch the video right now at work so I don't know if this was mentioned on it, but one of the people busted was former WCW and TNA wrestler Disco Inferno...
yeah, had a buddy that played in that game once - disco inferno was playing that night - the braves player was john rocker (at least that night)
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Prioritizing the enforcement of crimes is not a justification for ignoring the smaller ones, like jaywalking. Your argument assumes that for every poker game being busted, one more drug dealer or rapist or murderer is going free. What people fail to acknowledge is that other officers are out trying to enforce laws against drugs, rape, and murder. Do they catch everyone? Of course not. Is every home poker game busted? Of course not. If it makes you feel better, I'm fairly certain that more resources are devoted to catching rapists and murderers in Atlanta than are devoted to busting home poker games.
True, but every police office everywhere is working with finite budget of both money, officers, time, etc. They do not make the laws, they enforce the laws. A major part of enforcing the laws is deciding how they will distribute their finite resources among the laws that need to be enforced. It's another system of checks and balances. While it is not clear that funds are being taken away from the "solving little girl rape crimes" unit to the "busting poker games" unit, in principle the strict enforcement of frivolous laws does limit the enforcement of more serious laws.But the point is that police officers in a sense are forced to choose what laws they will enforce and what laws they will ignore (or will enforce to a lesser extent by putting less resources into it). In major cities, enough homicides and other serious crimes go unsolved to warrant concern over the enforcement of poker laws.
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