Poker Shootings a Troubling Trend

Playing poker, unfortunately, has players not only watching their cards and their opponents' faces, but also their backs.

Another shooting occurred this week, this time at a poker game in a private home in San Antonio, Texas. Three masked men broke into the house, robbed the pot of about $3,000 and shot one of the players twice. Twice in his chest.

Deuces are it. The shooting came only a week after another violent incident involving poker game. The earlier incident was in Florida, where three players were killed after a game. The shooter in this case believed they had cheated him in the game.

Only last week, mind you, the police broke up a poker game in Hawaii, where 15 players were playing Texas Hold 'em. So if it's not criminals, it's the police we need to fear?

Ironically, the man shot in the more recent of the two incidents, a famous poker player by the name of Charles Lineberry, who has won massive prizes in past tournaments, once wrote online that if there was one thing he could change about poker, he would make it legal to play the game in Texas.