Monday, September 04, 2006

PartyPoker player arrested while playing at home

Police raided professional poker player Richard Lee's Shavano Park house in San Antonio last week. They referred to his residence as the "nerve center" of a suspected Internet gambling operation, and police confiscated a money-counting machine, five Lexus cars, plasma screen TVs and a large amount of cash.

But Lee, who recently won more than $2.8 million in the 2006 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, hasn't been charged with a crime, said Sandy Gutierrez, spokeswoman with the San Antonio Police Department.

Lee denied operating an Internet gambling Web site but said he was taking part in an online poker tournament on partypoker.com when police arrived.

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