The Facebook page for Nilla's Poker Room normally is updated several times a day. It's been idle since Friday night. A couple of comments left on the page suggested why: police raided that room, as they did Nikki's a few weeks ago.
Nilla's planned to host a "memorial benefit tournament" for a deceased poker player Saturday - with money to help pay for his gravesite. But that apparently never happened; a comment asking about the anticipated turnout Saturday was answered with "0", as in zero.
We called Nilla's twice in the last 36 hours to ask if the online claims are true - but the phone simply rang, with no one answering. Then came the confirmation on the late-afternoon TV news: a raid Friday night not only closed the room, but led to seven arrests.
So Nilla's is closed - for how long, we don't know. Given what a woman said on the night we went there in January, that only seems fair. And to expand on what we said last week regarding Nikki's....
My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don't show favoritism.... But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted of the law as lawbreakers. - James 2:1, 9If police are going to cite one poker location for breaking laws, police should cite them all. Perhaps what happened here is a matter of personnel and timing; we have no idea. But this looks like a case where the proverbial "wheels of justice" moved slowly - but still moved.
For the Lord is righteous; he loves justice.... - Psalm 11:7We'll comment more about this in upcoming posts - but in the meantime, we invite you to leave a comment with your thoughts about what's happened.
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