The Well Receives More Bad Publicity With Gambling Bust

The Well, a California bar, has been in the news the past couple of years for all the wrong reasons. The latest negative publicity for the bar came on Tuesday when The Well was raided for illegal gambling activity.

The bar first was in the news last baseball season when Los Angeles Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart was killed in an automobile accident. The person driving the car that killed Adenhart had been drinking at The Well before he got behind the wheel, according to Covina Police Sergeant Dave Foster.

On Tuesday, Foster sent his officers back into the bar to conduct a raid. The raid had to do with illegal Texas Hold'em poker games that were being played. Dozens of people were sitting at the poker tables when the raid took place.

Card shuffling machines, poker chips, card, and thousands of dollars were seized in the raid. Three poker tables were running according to authorities, and six people were arrested in conjunction with the illegal gambling activity taking place.

"In many of these cases, prosecutors have been unable to make the charges stick when bar poker games were being held," said Gaming Analyst Steve Schwartz. "In this case, however, it became quite clear to the officers that this was not a bar league poker night when no money was exchanging hands."

Around the US, authorities have been cracking down on illegal gambling operations, most of which were being run out of convenience stores and involved slot machines. The bar poker leagues have become popular in the past decade, and some bars have taken the games to far and allowed patrons to gamble on the poker games.

September 2, 2010
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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