The Madness of Illegal Poker
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A couple of days ago, a mathematician, former professor, and poker player was shot to death during an armed robbery at a card club in New York City. This shooting, like countless poker game shootings before it, is a direct result of the madness of illegal poker.
For the past several years, New York’s Finest have been raiding card club after card club to enforce New York’s law against running poker games. Typically in a raid they take down the names of the people playing there, perhaps they confiscate some cash, and they try to track down the club management. Then they send the players on their way (or arrest them and then send them on their way) and padlock the door.
In other words, it’s highly annoying to the people who want to play and run poker games, but they aren’t exactly sending people to prison for ten years over it. So naturally, the management finds a new location, contacts the regulars, and a new club springs up. A while later, that club will get raided, and another new one will spring up.
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Tags: new york, nyc, poker, poker club, poker club robbery

Robberies seem to be springing up lately.