New Houston poker room forced to close

The poker room that opened at the Post Oak Poker Club was forced to closed due to the heavy hurricane that affected Houston.

US.- Owner of the Post Oak Poker Club Daniel Kebort revealed that the brand new poker room that opened earlier this month had to close its doors on Saturday night due to the ongoing Tropical Storm Harvey, which touched land as a hurricane.

“We were able to stay open until Saturday night at 9 p.m. At that time we stopped our games and sent our players home due to the weather. All of our players got out, but by 9:30 p.m. when our staff went to leave our lot was flooded and 16 people were stuck at the club. There is a Hilton next door. Several of my staff went there for the night and then after Saturday’s initial flooding rain they got stuck there and are still there,” said Kebort, according to Card Player.

Whilst the rainfall is expected to continue through Wednesday, the club is expecting to reopen on Thursday. “We are currently working to organise a US$10,000 buy-in charity tournament with JJ Watt and/or James Harden to try to raise US$1 million for local charity. We hope to recruit some of our local celebrities, business execs and corporate sponsors to help us reach this goal. If we can pull it together the proceeds raised will go to JJ Watt’s flood relief.”