$10k buy-in game busted in Roswell GA

Piece of Cake · #1 04-10-2007, 11:07 AM

Not sure where this goes - maybe NVG? I did a search but couldn't find any post of this yet.

Article with vid

I can't imagine anyone will get in any real trouble other than the owner, and that's only if a rake was being charged. I'm sure this happens all the time but I recently noticed some Atlanta residents on here looking for home games.

Grasshopp3r · #2 04-10-2007, 12:20 PM

This is why these games should be held in country clubs, where there are adequate facilities. Imagine the rake and taxes from properly legalized games.

DING-DONG YO · #3 04-10-2007, 01:14 PM

wow, wonder if anyone I know was involved?

prob not, sounds like some unsavory characters at this place.

nutsflopper · #4 04-10-2007, 01:18 PM

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wow, wonder if anyone I know was involved?

prob not, sounds like some unsavory characters at this place.

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YOU DIDT SAY I WAS UNSAVORY LAST NITE

kylephilly · #5 04-10-2007, 01:29 PM

yikes would not be a fun night in Roswell

TomCowley · #6 04-11-2007, 12:52 AM

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wow, wonder if anyone I know was involved?

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Glenn Robert Gilberti is... Disco Inferno. Plenty of people have heard of him.

Wahoo73 · #7 04-11-2007, 12:30 PM

If you ever followed WCW wrestling, you probably remember Glen Gilberti aka "Disco Inferno." He was among those arrested.

dlk9s · #8 04-11-2007, 12:34 PM

Another Atlanta area poker bust:

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/met...ygambling.html

Piece of Cake · #9 04-10-2007, 02:08 PM

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Instead of wasting tax payers money raiding these games, they could be subsidizing it with regulated and taxed card games.

RonMexico · #10 04-10-2007, 02:27 PM

The most ridiculous point made is from the doof police sergeant. I'm paraphrasing but it was something like, "What we're looking at here is the amount of money involved--hundreds of thousands of dollars. Somebody is winning that money and also somebody is losing that money." No [censored], detective. But how does the stake make it any more illegal than a $50 game? If home poker games are illegal, then presumably they are illegal at all stakes. He's suggesting they have to protect people from losing so much money since he and idiot news anchors think $10,000 is a ton of cash to everyone. Also, nice touch with the two guns and 200 pills believed to be X, as if a random sample of 20 or 30 cars in suburban Georgia might not produce similar results.