Underground Poker Club Waitress Arrested for Alleged Armed Robbery Plot Involvement Shanica Merced a waitress has broken her silence about her involvement in an armed robbery that turned into a double murder in an NJ poker club.

A former waitress at an illegal underground poker club in Connecticut told the U.S. Sun she had no involvement in a botched armed robbery attempt that ended with both robbers being shot to death. Bridgeport police, however, tell a different story, claiming that Shanica Merced assisted in plotting to rob her place of work. The 35-year-old was arrested last week on charges of conspiracy to commit robbery in the first degree and illegal gambling, both felonies. Her bond was set at $250,000.

Royal Flush on the River Disqualifies Bad Beat Jackpot at Texas Poker Room? A cruel river card turned off a poker bad beat jackpot at the Lodge Card Club in Austin Texas costing one player more than $50000 a brutal hand.

A one-outer on the river, perhaps for the first time ever, killed a bad beat jackpot from being set off at The Lodge Card Club near Austin, Texas. Yes, you read that right. The pot-limit Omaha bad beat jackpot at the card room co-owned by Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme, and Brad Owen, is up to $118,000 from its $100,000 starting point. The jackpot qualifier had been reached on the flop when two players in a low-stakes game each hit a straight flush. But the qualifier ended when a one-outer royal flush appeared on the river, making the hand a true bad beat, and nobody was paid anything.

This Texas Poker Room is Banking on a Women-First Concept Royal Card Club in Austin Texas is trying to bring more women into the game of poker and theyre doing it by having a women-first poker room concept.

The Royal Card Club in Austin, Texas has a unique poker room concept that just might help bring more women into the game of poker. Lisa Pickell, VP of Operations and Business Development for the poker club, which opened in April, explained some of the challenges her business faces, and shared an optimistic view of the good it could do for the poker community. Bringing More Women into Poker Pickell, originally from New Jersey, is a longtime poker player. She’s an instructor for Poker Power, an organization focused on empowering women to win in life and poker. Her intent with Royal Card Club is twofold — she of course wants it to be a profitable business venture, but also to help attract more women to the game of poker.

What Is Real-Time Assistance (RTA)? Is it Legal? Real-Time Assistance (RTA) is being discussed more than ever in the poker world, but what is it exactly and what does it mean for online poker?

Real-Time Assistance (RTA) is a topic that is becoming increasingly more discussed within the poker community, and PokerNews is here to give you a brief explainer of what the term poker RTA means, how it works, and how players are supposedly using it at the highest levels of poker to cheat their way to hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. PokerStars takes its game integrity seriously, and recently gave insight into how they combat RTA, including how they detect and deter cheaters on its site. PokerStars revealed that its proactive detection rate of RTA usage exceeds 95%.