Letter to Texas Poker Players for April 3rd Event in Austin
Dear Texas Poker Player, As you know, the Poker Players Alliance is fighting on your behalf in Washington, D.C. and at the state level to defend your right to play poker. The fight for legal, safe and...
View Article[TX] Businesses Holding free Hold’em tournaments
Illegal poker operations have been around for quite some time. But with the recent popularity of Texas Hold’em, bars and restaurants have found ways to offer legal tournaments. Texas Hold’em Tournament...
View Article[TX] KXAS – Police Say High-Stakes Poker Tournaments Held In Hurst Home...
excerpt: Police said they shut down a high-stakes gambling operation based in a North Texas home on Friday. A SWAT team raided the house off Highway 10 on Friday night. Hurst police said they found two...
View Article[TX] WPTAPL – Police Officer in Texas Claims the 2007 National Championship...
excerpt: On April 12th of 2008 World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League (WPTAPL) welcomed the WPT partners and pro’s, including “Cowboy” Kenna James, and Nick Brancato, as they hosted their National...
View Article[TX] News Channel 5 – Police Raid Gambling Operation (06/29/08)
excerpt: MISSION – A letter from a NEWSCHANNEL 5 viewer triggers a police investigation and an overnight raid of an illegal gambling operation in Mission. A worried neighbor tipped us off with an...
View Article[TX] Authorities fold poker games – The Gazette-Enterprise (08/26/08)
excerpt: GUADALUPE COUNTY — Nearly a dozen people at two local underground poker parlors have been issued citations for illegal gambling in the wake of a months-long undercover investigation by county...
View Article[TX] Texas law says no dice to charitable poker – Stephenville Empire-Tribune...
excerpt: All bets are off. That was the news organizers of Erath County United Way’s benefit poker tournament received just days before the charitable game was set to get rolling. While a number of...
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