Following the raid at the start of March, The Lodge Card Club next to Austin, Texas, has decided to indefinitely close its doors and send its employees home
In a moving letter emailed to employees, The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, Texas, has announced it would “shut its doors for the foreseeable future”. Accordingly, the card room was forced to lay off all of its staff, on the grounds of ongoing legal pressure from the authorities.
The club was initially closed on March 10, when the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) completed a controversial raid during which it seized a series of alleged evidence and froze assets.
“Incredibly Difficult Decision”
Highly recognizable poker pros Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme, and Brad Owen are some of the owners of the club, which has Polk, Jake Abdalla, and Jason Levin as majority owners and Neeme and Owen as smaller investors.
In what he described as “the hardest message I’ve ever had to write”, Levin officially confirmed that the poker room would keep its doors shut and all employees would be laid off…