Colorado Poker Raid
Published by Textbook 3 years, 5 months ago in In the News, Average JoesTwo dozen arrests in small town gambling ring
Authorities say the group was playing Texas Hold-em illegally. The card game is not illegal to play, but when you do it for money at a liquor establishment it is illegal. “There is a perception that these types of games may be legal. In fact they’re not,” says Matt Cook of the Department of Revenue, Liquor Enforcement Division. He says the restaurant is now the center of a criminal investigation. “It’s an unregulated environment where there’s some indication there may have been card cheating, professional cheating, marking of the cards that create an advantage for one player over another.”
So if you were planning to play “Rounders” by heading down to the Guadalajara Restaurant in Palmer Lake, between Denver and Colorado Springs, you need to make new plans.
The Denver Post has more, including some choice info on the restaurant owner:
Hulsmann coaches YMCA girls soccer, has served on the Tri-Lakes Chamber of Commerce, served on the town’s fireworks committee and volunteered with the parent-teacher organization at his children’s school.
“I’m not a punk,” he said.
That way reminds me of something a cetain brutha was telling me occurred in New England…