This scene was common in the late 2000s: An officer flooded into a small Dallas strip mall office, rifling through office files and confiscating cash, chips and playing cards.
Dumbstruck poker players waited for either an arrest or citation. And from 2008-2010, numerous other clubs across Texas met their demise as the war against illegal poker rooms raged and the rooms shut their doors for the last time.
Despite the game’s long association with poker, casinos and card rooms are illegal (except for a lone Indian casino) in the Lone Star State as are poker clubs or rooms that take a rake.