During the night between Sunday and Monday, three men broke into a house in North Carolina (USA) where a poker game with around 30 people was held. The three robbers were all armed, 2 of them had handguns and one had a rifle. The man with the rifle used his rifle butt to knock down 2 of the poker players before firing a shot into the wall and demanding the other poker players to lay down on the fl[...] Read more » USA: Armed men robbed poker players
Joined: Sep '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 95
I wonder how a poker game with that much money involved, isn't full of security. Dumb move imo. The men probably knew that there wouldn't be much security involved.
Joined: Dec '08
Location: Netherlands
Age: 64 (M)
Posts: 735
30 man "under the gun" in just one hand, and they all moved all-in... That's the reason to only play in low-stakes housegames and not to bring much cash... unless there is good security.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: Canada
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 3207
lol 2 hand guns n a rifle? well come to nova scotia...thats jus ppl tryin to get by...ppl get shot up everyday i figured theyd atleat be armed...hardly a holdup and hardly well armed
Joined: May '09
Location: India
Age: 37 (M)
Posts: 4873
surely someone from inside must be involved, they must be knowing that there is no security and a lot of money would be there due to the poker game. can't believe ppl were playing high stakes game at someone's house without adequate security
Sounds like an inside job, maybe the host or one of the players themselves. In the long run when they catch who ever did this, it would be interesting to see who these robbers were linked to. I didn't see it, but did the guy holding the game get in trouble for illegal gambling. Sometimes the local authorities don't like that kind of thing for some reason.
Joined: Mar '08
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 6714
Looks like they have been watching too many movies. So theres a snich in the group, re play the CCTV footage you used to see villians cards, now look for the guy who was not supprised when the masked men broke in, he is in on it too. Now find the SOAB and turn him in to a human bag of jelly.
Joined: Mar '09
Location: United States
Age: 54 (M)
Posts: 1
well,,,they had to know the game was on,,,and have an idea of how much cash was involved...id look to an inside type job,,mabey a big loser from a few weeks ago..or is the game just sooo well known that it could have been anyboody,,,??
Joined: Jul '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 38 (M)
Posts: 72
I don't know how it is there but in my country (portugal) we can only play games with money in casinos so if we get robbed I don't think the cops will do anything. or maybe they try to find the robbers and in the meentime they give us a fine for playing with money
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 4827
It must have been people who knew the game was going to have place in that house. Usualy, home made tourneys are only told to those who can participate, so the first suspects should be those who were invited but coudnt go that night, and those who knew their friends were going to play but didnt invited him... this second is most probably the author of this crime. Solved! p.s. Sorry, just ended watching a CSI episode
