A nightmare state of affairs unfolded for an unnamed poker participant in Houston earlier this month after he bagged a giant win at one of many space’s poker rooms.
That poker participant was adopted to the DoubleTree resort from the Texas Card Home by a number of males driving a white four-door automotive round 5:50 a.m. Two of the lads then climbed out the again of the automotive, walked into the foyer and shocked the person with violence as he was ready for an elevator to come back take him to his flooring. They shortly tore his pockets out of his pants and a bag from his grips and ran to the getaway automotive idling within the carport to make their escape.
Police say they have been conscious that the participant received a big quantity taking part in poker, and though they didn’t identify the cardboard room, the handle matches the Texas Card Home.
Particulars and resort surveillance video of the Aug. 1, theft have been launched by Houston police who’ve turned to the general public for assist figuring out the suspects.
There’s a $5,000 money reward for anybody who can provide police info resulting in their arrest. Those that might know one thing ought to name Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS (8477) or go away a tip on-line at www.crime-stoppers.org.
Simple targets?
Being adopted residence after a giant win and attacked is sadly a type of working hazard for poker gamers. Whereas uncommon, it solely takes one or two determined males to seek out their victims on the public casinos and card rooms and use violence to take what they need.
World Collection of Poker champion Greg Raymer famously fought off two armed males who adopted him again to his resort room on the Bellagio in 2004, the identical yr he received his Predominant Occasion bracelet. They have been after the $150,000 he stated he had on him.
A participant in Pittsburgh was adopted residence by a person on against the law spree and was pistol-whipped and robbed in entrance of the door to his residence just a few years in the past after he showed-off his bankroll on the poker desk, and a girl was adopted residence and robbed after successful a $10,000 jackpot on slots in Iowa.
Whereas gamers in all places ought to at all times be cautious, that appears to be significantly true for many who play in Texas. In 2022 , a safety guard almost misplaced his life after a person armed with an AR-15 barged into the Legends Poker Room in Houston. He wrestled the weapon away from the suspect, however was grazed by a bullet when the gun went off in the course of the wrestle.
And in 2018, 4 males have been indicted for robbing a poker sport in Abilene, Texas, of $8,000.
