Police, Texas Rangers Raid Poker Club
A high stakes game of Texas Hold’em ends not with a jackpot, but with 18 players and the owner hauled off in handcuffs.
In the middle of the night Thursday Texas Rangers, DPS, a swat team, San Benito police and the district attorney’s office swarmed a popular night spot in San Benito called Diamond “C”.
One by one men and women were hauled off in handcuffs.
“We closed down a gambling establishment a Texas hold ‘ em card shop…
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Useful poker information:
- COMPUTER HAND - Texas Hold'em hole cards of Q-7 offsuit. More generically, any hand that computer analysis/simulation determines is positive but turns out to be difficult to play in practice.
- DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.
- FORCED BET - In some stud games a player may be required to make a bet to start the action on the first card. This is similar conceptually to blinds and antes, but in this case is dependent on the cards shown rather than player position. Usually the weakest hand is forced to bet.
- NICKEL - Five dollars, usually represented by a red casino check.
- POSSIBLE [STRAIGHT/FLUSH] - Up cards that quite possibly could lead to a straight and/or a flush.
- PROP - Also PROPOSITION PLAYER. An employee of the gaming establishment whose primary purpose is to keep enough players at a table to prevent breaking up the game for lack of players. Unlike SHILLs "props" make a small hourly wage but play with their own money, winning or losing based on their skill.
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