Two years after the city granted Texas Card House a permit to operate, the City Council is trying to shut it and other above-ground poker rooms down by revoking their certificates of occupancy
, two men got into a shootout at another illegal game room in Dallas last may. Thong Nguyen worked at the room and stuffed a large amount of cash in his shirt pocket, police said in an affidavit. This was captured on a surveillance camera at the room. The other man, Laurentino Belmares Jr., appeared to notice what Nguyen was doing.
City Council member Cara Mendelsohn has said she thinks the city code should be changed to require specific use permits or consider nearby residential zoning. This way, poker rooms won’t end up where they’re not wanted. If people want to gamble legally in Texas, she said, they should head to Austin and get the law changed.
He said he received hundreds of emails from members of their HOA opposed to the establishment. “Based on all that feedback, I will tell you that our residents and residents of many of our surrounding neighborhoods don’t understand how this could happen and feel that the city has let them down,” he said. “They’ve been told there’s nothing the city can really do.”
“After a very thorough process to evaluate the legality of the business model proposed, the City Attorney's office has deemed it illegal as outlined by state law,” Mendelsohn said in a Facebook post about Champions. “The city will stand up to any legal challenges to this determination.”Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office didn’t respond to the’s requests for comment on the legality of poker rooms in Texas.
That began to change in 2019. Zack Fertitta, a Houston attorney who represented one of the city’s biggest poker clubs, explained this transition in an article for Why? There was a conflict of interest in the Harris County District Attorney’s Office. Several of its members frequented the clubs. Fertitta represented Prime Social and got all the criminal charges against the club dismissed.
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