The Poker Lab Rat

The United States has often been accused of being a country of contrasts and contradictions but this news item takes the cake.

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San Antonio police raided the home of World Series of Poker finalist Richard Lee early Wednesday.

Armed with a search warrant, members of the San Antonio Police Department Vice Squad conducted a search and seizure at Lee’s home in the 100 block of Geddington and found signs of an illegal gambling operation, police said.

Betting slips with names of players and gambling debts were also found, police said.

Police also said they found a person of interest at a computer looking at an illegal gambling Web site. Undercover officers seized money, several luxury cars and high-end computer equipment, police said.

Lee, who won nearly $3 million in the World Series of Poker in early August, has not been named a suspect and no arrests were made.

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RATTY SAYS :

OK - so a professional poker player has “high end” computer equipment, luxury cars, and a wad of cash and was looking at an “illegal” gambling site … where is the surprise in that ?!

Only in America can a man win $3,000,000 in a poker tournament that is televeised around the nation, and then find his house raided because someone is practising by playing a little online cards in the privacy of his own home !!

WTF is going on with LAW ENFORCEMENT?
Aren’t there better things that you could be doing with tax payer dollars ??

Sheesh !!