While the Browns are at the depths of NFL suck-i-tude and the Cavs dropped the home opener against the Celtics, you’d figure that the city deserved a bit of a break. Maybe the Poker Players would be winners? Not so!
Home game players in the suburb of Solon were stuck up by rifle-carrying robbers, stripped of their pants and pepper sprayed while theives took off with about $11K worth of cash (and reportedly some jewelery).
One of the players was outside having a smoke when he was cornered by the gunmen and forced to lead them to the game. The poker game was advertised on a Cleveland area website.
This came only 6 months after a robbery of a massive home game of about $75,000 in a similar area.
In Ohio, home games are legal if the host does not charge a fee or take any rake. I think they should start investing in some security for these high-rolling events, or at least make the meetups a bit more private.
