READ: The New Yorker Covers Quasi-Legal Texas Poker Scene
Poker in Texas has been a source of continued strife for the last several years. On one side, there are the poker players and clubs they frequent, which continue to operate in a gray area of the law. On the other side, local law enforcement and government lobbying groups continue to push for the clubs to be shut down.
The issue has been covered extensively here on PokerNews, starting with a couple of features back in 2017.
Last year, a landmark event went down when a Houston club hosted a WPTDeepStacks event. However, any optimism was relatively short-lived as the event did not make a return on the 2019 calendar and bad news followed when a pair of prominent Texas clubs were raided in the spring.
Popular American media outlet The New Yorker, known for its longform features, delved into the current state and history of the quasi-legal Texas scene with a particular focus on Houston. A limited number of articles from The New Yorker are available each month for free, and poker players and industry observers will certainly find the piece of interest.
READ: Feature piece from The New Yorker covering the Texas poker scene.
