Guns and Ski masks at local Tourny

[dougfr007]

Friday night poker tournament at my local place of play was robbed by four black guys in ski masks wielding guns and pistol whipping everyone. I was in the back seat of the corner table, furthest away from the robber and witnessed all of this with a 'calm' demenor. There were three tables and three of the robbers held each table under control by pulling hair back and pistol whipping peoples foreheads, spilling dark red blood over shirts, chips and cards. The leader of the gang dragged the guy running the tournament to the kitchen to get the prize pool, a small 1000$. The other three black guys made everyone put all their money on the table and began collecting it. After gettting the 'house' and then all the cash, they said, "every mother f())*&& in here get buck naked" and we had to strip naked. They grabbed this pretty blonde lady and dragged her into the kitchen for what we all thought was to be...the worst possible thing on the planet.

At this point you might be wondering if this is just a story...I wish and pray i could say i wasn't there to see all this terror...but it did happen and this isn't just a story.

The leader throws the blonde lady out of the kitchen and tells the other black guys that they should go...a collective sigh from all of us is heard. I had called 911 when i relized this was for real and when they made everyone get on the floor face down...i thought they were about to start shooting...i started telling the dispatch lady where we were at and to get the cops there immedietly.

What i lost was 60$...nothing more, people went to the hospital for stiches in there foreheads, with shirts soaked in the dark red blood from the head. My friend i was there with lost his walet...his identity, he was 'raped'.

A poker tournament has lots of cash and not alot of protection...it was an easy soft target and was robbed...if anyone else runs a game out of their house please take care and learn from this occurance. Know who you're players are cause we believe it was a one time visitior that was there the week before. It could happen anywhere to anyone.