From: Ksnydersj’s Weblog - Reno 911 (The home game)
Ok, today sucked in a major way. Here’s the scoop!
At approximately 2:30pm PST, San Mateo County Sheriffs Dept raids our home game (it was the season ending freeroll tourney). 10+ armed (and some heavily protected) officers stormed into the home where we play a majority of our home games. 20 of us were there for the freeroll tourney. They asked if anyone had weapons, instructed us to keep our hands on the table where they could be seen, immediately asked for specific individuals, told us that we’d each be interviewed separately, and then would be free to leave.
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From: Pokersoup.com - San Francisco Poker Meetup Group Busted!
This is my post about the San Francisco Bay Area Poker Meetup Group's end of the season freeroll, which we track results for on PokerSoup.com.
So we're about 30 minutes into playing the freeroll when things get interesting. I started on the button, and I folded my first 6 hands, which consisted of some terrible cards as well as A9 and A7. I decided not to throw away any of my chips since there were some strong players starting with more chips than me. I'm under the gun and see AQs! I raise 3 times the big blind and get five crazy callers :p
The flop is J95 with two diamonds, which doesn't seem so good for me. I'm sure somebody called with AJ or KJ or QT or something. Everybody checks - wow. I tell the dealer to give me a deuce and he does, but it's a diamond, so that's too bad. Everybody checks again, so I start to think I could be good, but probably not. I call for another 2, and he rips it right off the top. Everybody is checking around because they are afraid of my psychic abilities, and then we hear a knocking on the door.
Somebody jokingly said only the cops knock like that. Well, they were right. A grip of policeman come in with their guns drawn.
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Hats Off, to the SMPD for getting rid of all the other crime in San Mateo so that they can focus on the scourge of Adults playing poker.... and, Thank G-d they surely saved that child from a life of abuse, neglect, and crime....
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The so called police should be sued and fired immediately then put in jail for kidnapping.
Land of the Free my ass.
“The gestapo encourages citizens to report instances of heavy foot traffic, frequent visitors and illegal parking in residential areas by calling its anonymous tip line...”
There, now that line reads just right.
If gambling is going to happen, gubmint is going to make money from it. Gubmint will brook no competition. Likewise alcoholic beverages. Smoke till your eyeballs fall out ... just pay that tax.
That’s a relief. The citizens of San Mateo can now sleep easily at night knowing that those dangerous criminals playing Texas hold em have been taken off the streets.
This is absolutely absurd. Bunch of douchebags. Did anybody see the Drew Carey video on Reason about how the “authoritahs” raided a VFW charity poker game?
I’m glad the swat boys were able to practice their skillz on a bunch of lowlifes. SWAT is so cool.
Many people here don’t seem to care, and in some cases applaud, when swat teams raid houses over misdemeanor amounts of pot. So why should they care over swat raiding a house over a misdemeanor poker game?