These hotels were having tournaments with prized of over 30,000 and 50,000 pesos, but they didn’t have the needed permissions to hold these tournaments in their installations.

There were found about 100 card players who were participating on the game, about 50,000 pesos were able to be recovered. Among the players there were famous soccer directors, well-known chess players and businessmen. Non of them were breaking the law by playing.

The game being played was the Texas Hold’em Poker, which is similar to the one played on casinos. It consists on the players making the best game using five cards which are a combination of the five community cards on the table and two that each player gets. The buy-in was of 500 pesos and the organizers promised to give out over 70% of the money gained. The winner could get up to 30,000 pesos.