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did u read the thread?

you never saw holdem on tv before?

I have also had the pleasure of being arrested by dallas swat for playing poker. I was at a game downtown and they took a battering ram to the door, smashed through all the windows and were throwing everyone including women to the ground. Several of them were holding machine guns inches away from the players and saying,"I swear if you move I will kill you right now."

The joke was kinda on them though cause most of the people in the game were respected doctors and lawyers and a few college kids. I got interviewed by the news which made me popular in class on monday cause some of the other students as well as some of my professors had seen me on tv. The news also reported that in the last 3 raids they had done they found 0 weapons, 0 drugs, and 0 people with warrants. Brilliant use of police and swat resources IMO.

They did write us all tickets for gambling, but it's a $80 ticket and it doesn't go on your record. Just about everyone got them dropped though from what I heard.

We have a lively live scene in Tel Aviv and I used to work these games for a living, the police would always come in violently (break the table consifcate all the chips) then let the players go , hold the owners for a couple of hours and let them go , repeat two months later.

I must have been in like 5 of these , after the first couple I was totally having fun with the cops and the event.

Basically, its the reality of things, playing "home" games is illegal, we are breaking the law for doing it and once in a while the cops show us someone cares and we go along with our buissness, everyone is kind of happy...

Why was this the lead story of the newscast? No Dallas Cowboys get caught with hookers and/or blow that day?

yes i do.

i bet it was a 200nl game.
[ ] HSP

The stabbed at a Jack & the Box drive thru made me lol.

This police behaviour is so unnecessary. I love how its BIG news there.
[x] glad i dont live in hurst.

Speaking of "lead story" - this never ceases to crack me up - http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4UMx...eature=related

EDIT - the murder part doesnt crack me up....just the Ron burgandy-esque teleprompter miscue

and remember this?

http://pokersoup.com/blog/pokeradica...p-group-busted


we are poker players and obviously we think this is ******ed ---- BUT, maybe its good thing in terms of obeying the law.


Thinking about it......thinking about it......no. Its still ******ed

NVG posters, no doubt.

Having played in the underground games around Dallas and Houston for about 5 years, this looks like a Mickey Mouse operation.

Some of the big rooms in those towns rival some of the rooms in Vegas.

In other less important news, gas prices skyrocketing, still in Iraq, food costs up, job market soft.