Legal Poker In Texas???

[LimitGod]

Let's turn this into where can I find a poker game in TX thread cuz I just moved back and I want to know.

[Johnny Hughes]

I would like to tell you about the times I have been robbed and arrested with some colorful old gamblers...However, I have been asked to lay off my old stories.

I will say that the police were very nice. No guns were drawn. No handcuffs were used. It was all very humorous.

There are games in some towns but no good games in mine.

Johnny Hughes

[Dkay04]

Are you still in Lubbock Johnny? There is no shortage of games there.

[Kriber13]

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I would like to tell you about the times I have been robbed and arrested with some colorful old gamblers...However, I have been asked to lay off my old stories.

I will say that the police were very nice. No guns were drawn. No handcuffs were used. It was all very humorous.

There are games in some towns but no good games in mine.

Johnny Hughes

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Please go ahead I always enjoy a good story.

[minnesotasam]

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I would like to tell you about the times I have been robbed and arrested with some colorful old gamblers...However, I have been asked to lay off my old stories.

I will say that the police were very nice. No guns were drawn. No handcuffs were used. It was all very humorous.

There are games in some towns but no good games in mine.

Johnny Hughes

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Please go ahead I always enjoy a good story.

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Seriously, your posts are always some of my favs in NVG Johnny..

[mshafer000]

Johnny,

Who told you to layoff the stories?

[XXXNoahXXX]

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Click the link. It says that in the article.

"Existing Texas law allows gambling on a card game if it is done in a private place, such as a home; if no one received economic benefit from the game other than personal winnings; and if the risk of winning or losing is the same for all participants, according to the Texas District and County Attorneys Association."



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so only PL Omaha?

[Johnny Hughes]

I do have some fine old gambling stories from West Texas that I would just love to share. However, I was told to tone it down and I am waiting for clarification. My e-mails about this have gone unanswered.

There's one fellow making a career of going on varied web sites to attack me over and over for what I wanted to share with you. As far as I know, only he and Mr. Mamuth have doubted my credibilty and character.

There are a few things I can add, if I am allowed to.

This fellow keeps referring to a Doyle Brunson thread that tells about a robbery in Austin and the ring story. I would like to see the thread. Post the thread. Please.

I am willing to bet this fellow, Doyle Brunson, or anyone else that I can prove to Doyle's satisfaction that my account it true of the robbery in Beevile and that the robbery was in Beeville. $50,000 seems about right.

There are bound to be some facts a little wrong after fifty years. One way I have fact checked it to talk with and e-mail the sons and relatives of the gamblers mentioned. They agree with me on every fact except one. There were four robbers with shot guns. They threw tear gas through the windows. They knew who Curly was. He ran in the bathroom and hid around $10,000. The robbers made him come out and they made him produce the ring. Later, the robbers called him at home trying to sell him back the ring. He declined.

This robbery happened in Beeville, Texas. Everybody agrees with that except the 2Plus2 guy that doesn't want to hear these stories.

At the time of the robbery, Curly and Horsey Inman had been fading the dice in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The robbers took Curly's car but missed a big box of Mexican money in the trunk. After the robbery, Curly checked in a Holiday Inn...maybe Laredo but I do not know for sure. Maybe I'll go to hell for that! Someone, we might guess the same robbers, robbed the Holiday Inn. Curly had $5000 or $10,000 in the motel safe. The FBI came and Curly told them they did their gambling "across the river." They went on. I'd love to write a whole column about Curly but a vocal minority keeps me out.

Curly wouldn't wear a neck tie because a guy grabbed his neck tie in a fight and choked him.

Curly was at the Democratic Convention in Oklahoma City...I think...in 1956...I think..He and a partner were arrested running a huge dice game for the delegates. He had on a delegates badge. It was in the newspapers across the country. Curly hated the heat.

Curly was a good long-term friend of Benny Binion and Titanic Thompson. My next Bluff article is about Titanic Thompson. I just mentioned three UNBELIEVABLE characters in one paragraph. Curly would not go to the World Series because Benny told him the IRS and the FBI were on the rail.

The post that they objected to was only the very first few paragraphs of an article that is in this issue of Bluff.

The fellow who wants me off here keeps referring to my use of the term "barking iron." He is absolutely correct that this is not a commonly used term and came up before his time. I am a stylist writer. If you don't like it, don't read it.

In Bluff Magazine, they chose to highlight a term in large letters: I wrote..."Gamblers came from all over to Pinkie's joint. They'd strut up licking their chops and limp away licking their wounds."

I did not mean that they were actually physically injured or that they were really licking their bleeding wounds, so don't go calling me a liar. This is a way to say the poker game was a tough poker game. Many of you understand that and do not believe it has anything to do with my honestly, reputation, or my writing.

If you do not want to read it. Don't read it. Put me on your ignore button. I notice the guy that attacks me uses different fake names to hide behind. Which one of us do you believe is dishonest??? How much would you bet???

Johnny Hughes

[Toro]

Well, Johnny, you certainly put your money ($50,000) where your mouth is. Lets see if anyone takes you up on this prop bet.

[Wetdog]

Johnny, I think that your stories are fascinating and if there are embellishments, they are forgivable. Heck, even the Bible has embellishments (Methuslah living 900 years? The WHOLE WORLD flooding? come on).

I admire Mason for his knowledge and business sense. I wouldn't want to take sides in some stupid pissing match over some stories. I hope you continue to post these tales that are part of the early history of holdem. I also hope that Mason will add to and refute some of the facts. That would be like watching a movie and reading a history book.

I doubt that Mason was impuning your character. Perhaps he was just being the loveable nit that he is. Please don't interpolate that as being called a liar.

As for the other guy whoever he is, maybe it's one of those Kansas City robbers or their relations. Maybe you know who it is. I don't know. Unless he/she can come up with some credible facts, their words are inimportant and I don't hear them. Screw'em.