Home Game Murder
From cardplayer.com news:
“A Florida man was charged with three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of three men last weekend. According to the Putnam County Sheriffs Office, after believing that he had been cheated during a private poker game, Duane Demaris Crittenden II, 28, apparently returned to the scene on Saturday morning and killed three of the game’s participants. Jerome Anthony Henry, 48, and Richard David Smith, 50, were both shot once. Robert Erwin Ford, 50, had been shot twice and stabbed. ”
This is ridiculous.
This is not simply ridiculous because of the person who did the crime, though it is obviously that.
This is ridiculous because it had a chance to happen in the first place. That the players were playing in a setting where a person had the opportunity to come in wielding a gun. If this had taken place in a legal game room, if we WERE ALLOWED to have legal game rooms, then there would not be these sort of occurrences.
If our government would realize that by not allowing legal gambling competition they are creating scenarios such as this one.
If our government really wants to ‘protect’ us, they should give us the opportunity to decide for ourselves whether or not we want to play poker. We should have the option to play in a place that is safe.
I can buy stocks online from my apartment.
I can look up whether or not 6 balls fell into a cup so that I can win $50 million.
I should be able to play a game that is 65% luck and 35% skill in a place that I won’t get shot it in the face if someone doesn’t like the way the cards fell.
But for now we’re stuck playing in rooms where every knock on the door could be this kind of scenario waiting to happen.
Makes sense to me.
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1 opinion for Home Game Murder
Jereme
Feb 25, 2008 at 3:32 pm
A different spin would be that cheating is less apt to happen in a casino than at a home game.
To be honest though this guy would be able to shoot up an entire table (plus more) before anything could be done at a card room.
card room’s are not equipped with the same security forces as a casino would be.
Card room security guards make about 11 bucks an hour down here in California which is far from a salary that would cause a person to care that a table full of individuals were getting shot up.
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