Underground Poker Scene getting more Dangerous?
Um… Yeah, because more and more sick fucks are finding it an attractive target to do all the shit they wanna’ do.
Since a former professor was killed in a private poker room in New York City, poker players from the underground poker scene were stunned, frightened and just plain scared shitless of the fact that any one of them could be next.
Masked men, armed with a shotgun, barged into an underground poker game on the 7th floor of an office building on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue. The masked men were trying to rob the joint and during the robbery, former professor, Frank DeSena was shot in the torso and killed after a gun went off by accident.
DeSena was 55 years old.
As expected, many underground poker players were shocked. Some players even claimed that risking your life for an underground poker game is just not worth it. Some, on the other hand, blame it on the police after New York and Dallas have publicly went on a crackdown on underground gambling.
Poker players complained that the police forced what they consider to be a harmless game further underground, making it more vulnerable to crimes like this.
‘’The police are driving it into a dark corner that it doesn’t need to be in,’’ a former underground poker room manager said, adding that he thought the games should be legalized and regulated. ‘’I don’t believe anybody’s hurting anybody by playing cards. I don’t know what we’re doing that’s so wrong.’’
The underground poker scene around the country, illegal or not, can make for enticing targets for would-be criminals, according to the police. Some games have minimal security, and some criminals may assume that organizers will not report robberies to the police for fear of exposing the game.
Poker clubs reportedly have been held up recently in cities around the country, including Dallas, Chicago and Indianapolis.
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