I was playing at a home game tournment a couple of weeks ago here in louisville for $30 and 9 cops busted in with shotguns claiming they had a search warrant in which they did. They collectively took $5700 in cash from everyone at the game including 1300 off off me. 3 of them got felonies and the rest of us got a citiation for loitering for the purpose to gamble with all of us having the same court date. The cops took the money out of our pockets. Do you all think we will get our money back? thank you.

How can you get loitering in a house if the owner doesnt press charges?

it was a car garage that they worked out of during the day and ran a game out of at night three times a week. I thought it was only illegal if you are taking a cut of of the kitty for your own profit but the thing that really hurted the owners were the three slot machines that were in the back of the garage,

this has more information on it. just copy and paste it

http://www.courier-journal.com/artic...ling+hall+raid

i be fail to see the MTT strategy related question

Shuv pre.

your post is in the wrong place but...
i got into the same problem in Billings, MT. the home game was at a storage and cops busted it. they also took the money but only the money that was from the chips, they didnt take money from our pockets. we all had to go talk to the detectives but they didnt take us to court. i went in, they were about to ask me questions (recording the conversation) and i asked for my lawyer. the cop got sooooooo ***** pissed off at me because he couldnt ask me questions now that i asked for a lawyer.
tbh i dont think you are going to get your money back. we didnt get it. but i read an article that in virginia cops busted a home game at a garage, the players took the cops to court and the players won. they got their money back and everything.
i didnt care for my money because moments before cops got in i lost a big pot so they only took 60 bucks from me lol but i think in total they took more that 3k...
now in this game they didnt take any rake at all. dealers will only take tips and that was it. cops said that it was still illegal because it was a public game. they said that people was inviting other people and anyone could walk in and play, and that made it public. personally i think if we would have take this case to court we could have won but i would have spent more money doing that.
i think there is a poker organization that help people like us that have been busted in home games. i do not know the name but maybe someone here can help out.
good game

You will never see that money again. Cops probably gave it to the fire department to hold a guaranteed prizepool tournement at the fire hall. It's legal for them of course

fyp

Stop and go.