[ba-poker] speaking of the Oaks tournament...

[Lone Locust of the Apocalypse <zorak(deleted the rest)>]

Private mail, but forwarded with permission:

> Eventually Larry (the casino manager) joined my table. He said 
> there  had been some  excitement during the week.   Larry saw a 
> picture in the local paper of a perpetrator who had robbed six 
> banks.  The guy was an Oaks Club player who had recently moved 
> up from 2-4 & 3-6 to 15-30. Larry looked at the video monitor and 
> there he was, playing 15-30, wearing the same black Oakland A's 
> baseball cap as the one in the bank's photo.  So Larry called the 
> Emeryville police and they came in and cuffed him without incident. 
> I forgot to ask what happened to his chips or whether he got his 
> time back.

courtesy of news.google.com:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/3949873/detail.html

Damn, I wish they'd shown the picture.  I want to know if I've played
with him :-)  The name plus black A's hat isn't ringing any bells
though.