in further bad news for Austin slot online home games, there was another judi slot online robbery on Friday night this weekend. As always these things have sketchy detail, but the three accounts I’ve heard correlate enough to be publishable.

It was a small but well-publicized home game, and was held at gunpoint by two guys who took the buyins. They apparently had cased the joint enough to be knowledgeable about the setup there. A couple folks at the game were beaten, but the overall M.O. of this robbery sounds fairly different from the earlier robbery I reported here.

What’s bad about this robbery is the fact that it was a small game (rather than a larger tournament), which from a thief’s standpoint should be a non-desirable target. I don’t understand why thieves would target a small home game; from a risk:reward standpoint they are very poor targets.

So while I expect attendance at home games to take a temporary dip, I also expect thieves in their right minds not to try to hit any more games anytime soon. I play with enough NRA members and gun dealers that are now packing heat to games that would make that a very poor choice.

congrats to felicialee

For winning the World Blogger’s Poker Tour Holiday Classic Tournament! Very entertaining writeup. One of these days I’ll participate in one of these in-person tournaments, and then the whole poker blogger world will know my name… as the guy who went all-in with Q9o after three raises.

college station texas game busted

A regular 10/20 raked limit game got busted in College Station on Monday night. It sounds like it was a pretty sizeable operation — the article claims they had ten tables and that the bust was the result of a three-month investigation.

About 25 people were in the facility at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, and 18 of them were issued a citation for gambling. The Class C misdemeanor is punishable by a fine of up to $500, Dickson said.

Police arrested 28-year-old Shawn Michael Lauderdale, who authorities believe was in charge of the operation, and two accused dealers, 30-year-old Jose Guadalupe Galvan Jr. of Bryan and 48-year-old Harold Ray Eaton of Houston. Each is charged with promotion of gambling, intentionally or knowingly operating a gambling place and possession of gambling paraphernalia — all Class A misdemeanors punishable by a fine of up to $4,000 and a year in jail.

The article also quotes the Bryan TABC office supervisor as saying that the recent robberies in Austin were part of the motivation to bust the game:

“We had some concerns  some of these operations, especially in Austin and Waco, have been getting robbed,” he said. “We figured it was not your typical nickel-and-dime poker game, and it worried us.”