Poker's Dark Days
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11 September 2007 /
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Fortunately for you, Betfair's keen eye and, let it not go unsaid, maternal-like care mean none of you have to worry about debts going unsettled.
In the unenlightened days of pre-Internet poker, disputes were not infrequent and fisticuffs not unwitnessed.
Journey with us now to the Apple Club, Curepe Junction, Trinidad & Tobago. It is around 7:00 in the morning.
Akeil 'Slows' Daly,25, has been playing poker with five other men. There is a heated debate. Guns are drawn. And Daly is killed. One Sheldon Noel is also shot dead.
Trevor Garraway, Noel's brother, Leroy John and Ronell Blackman are in critical condition at hospital.
Tragic. And criminal.
And a harking back to a time when poker was a game for cowboys and chancers in the ol' Wild West. And Sheriff Betfair had yet to climb atop the winner of the 2:30 at York and roll into town...
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