Poker in Texas

I am starting this blog in the hopes that a few people will read it and decide that they have had enough of Governor Rick Perry. We need to get a Governor who has actually played a game of poker, and not someone who thinks a game of cards is a sin.

I am not a journalist, or a liberal who hates having a Republican in charge. I'm just a poker player who loves the game of Texas Hold 'Em, and I hate the fact that I have to drive to Oklahoma to play poker. It seems ridiculous to me that we have a lottery here in Texas, yet we can't legally play poker.

I have been playing poker for many years, but it was always a rare Saturday night game at someones' house. I could never scare up a game until the recent boom in Poker started in 2003. Now you can find a underground card game anywhere in the D/FW area where I live, as long as you don't mind the thought of people bursting in and pointing a gun at you. Other than that, your only option is to drive to Louisiana or to the Winstar Casino in Oklahoma, just over the border.

Ahhhh, Winstar. I'm not sure that everyone knows that Winstar Casino, at Exit 1 just over the Red River, has become the fifth largest casino in the world. Yes, you read that right.....5th largest casino in the WORLD!! Where do you think that money came from? The farmers in Thackerville, the closest town to Winstar? Yes, that must be it. Thackerville, pop. 450

Now I'm not saying that Winstar gets ALL their money from Texans, but then again, they didn't put the casino in Oklahoma City, did they?

In this economy we need to bring some money back to Texas. We are hemorrhaging money to Oklahoma and Louisiana. It's time to start keeping our money here in Texas. Electing a new governor is the best way to start.