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North Carolina Poker Raid

By launchpoker, Oct 7, 2008 North Carolina Poker Raid

The Southern state of North Carolina in the United States has had yet another poker raid, with police closing in on a tournament in Fayetteville, shutting down a game that had forty or more people involved. In addition to the poker chips and cash police found - when searching the vehicles of the players - crack cocaine, marijuana, handguns and Oxcyontin pills. Chris Lusardi of Fayetteville, the alleged game operator, was taken into custody and charged with running a gaming operation; his home was also raided and $3k in cash seized.