Knew he was Asian, reminds me of those underground daily 3 Hmong stores do

[theking]

..as well as some other S.E. Asian stores do back in the 90s. Gambling legal or not and Asian just seem to go together based on my experience over the years  :

Man allegedly behind 7 underground casinos arrested after San Jose PD raids nets guns, drugs, $285k in cash


A San Jose resident and several of his associates believed to be behind illegal drug and underground gambling operations are now in custody following a series of San Jose Police Department (SJPD) raids last week.

Detectives from the Burglary Prevention Unit (BPU) with the SJPD identified Chuong Ho, 43, as both the primary suspect and the mastermind behind a criminal organization that operated illegal underground casinos across the city.

Ho and his associates were booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on numerous charges. The SJPD, however, did not elaborate on Ho’s charges and how many of his associates have been arrested.

The BPU conducted a massive raid operation on Thursday at six locations in the city, as well as another address in the city of Los Baños, California, which is about 79 miles away from San Jose.

The raided addresses include:

2000 block of Whittington Drive in San Jose

1000 block of Commercial Court in San Jose

400 block of East Williams Street in San Jose

200 block of Prairiewood Court in San Jose

3000 block of Capewood Lane in San Jose

1800 block of Harbor View Avenue in San Jose

21000 block of Ingomar Grade in Los Baños

BPU detectives reportedly began their investigation after receiving complaints from community members about how the illegal activities, such as gambling and drug use, affected their safety.

“They generate a lot of quality of life issues. But also behind the scenes, they create a lot of criminality associated not only with the casinos but firearms, drug consumption, drug possession," San Jose Police Spokesperson Officer Steven Aponte said, according to CBS News.

A neighbor of one of the raided houses who did not want to be identified told the news network that they kept seeing people coming in and out of the house “24 hours a day.”

[theking]

Man, Santa Clara County LE still running with them Crown Vic?  :

[theking]

Back in the 80s and 90s, Hmong and other S.E. Asian stores i.e., Laotian, Cambodian, Vietnamese used these carbon receipt book pad to play the daily 3 illegally. After writing down your daily 3 numbers, you pay for it and the store owner gives you the white copy. If you win, you bring that receipt back and they'll give you the winnings in cash on the spot...

[Cali Guy]

Back in the 80s and 90s, Hmong and other S.E. Asian stores i.e., Laotian, Cambodian, Vietnamese used these carbon receipt book pad to play the daily 3 illegally. After writing down your daily 3 numbers, you pay for it and the store owner gives you the white copy. If you win, you bring that receipt back and they'll give you the winnings in cash on the spot...

Heard about that a lot too back then. Wasn’t it just twice a month did the numbers come out and using Thailand numbers? Also heard that sometimes, a big winner couldn’t collect from these rampant underground sellers.

[theking]

Wouldn't surprised me that they couldn't collect due to it's illegal nature...

[DuMa]

Chuong Ho is a weednamese

Where they go wrong is the lack of hired security crew and they need to pay their neighbors a cut so they too can look out for cops for them. 

I remembered a guy who goes to a local card room to play poker.  His intention is to gather up as many customers there as possible and lure them to his house and run an illegal underground card room.  The owner of the casino did not like this as that is income taken away from him so he got "his guys" to infiltrate.  I guess that is what is happening in this case here.  Either local casino owners or losers at that underground casinos are the mole.  That fool ran a 7 houses operation.  This must be some viet mob operation going on here. 

[P90xbox]

Man, I remember those pads. I remember my old man would "buy numbers" on a weekly basis. He even had this dictionary-like book all in thai writings or Laos writing...in that book is a collage of pictures of anything imaginable...f rom a man riding a horse, to any animal, plant, fruit.a bunch of random little drawings...for sure there's gotta be a picture of stepping on poop..lmao...w ell, and below every picture is 3 numbers...so the old g's into that stuff will wake up, try to remember their dream, and look in that book for whatever their dream was about, and wallaaaa...win ning numbers...only it's way off 99% of the time..lols

I think my old man wasn't all out addicted...but he'll play it every so often for periods of months on the weekly, then take long breaks..so yeah I think he did had a gambling problem and was trying to quit, thus, the long breaks, then getting back into it, then long breaks, ultimately- he did overcome the addiction...bu t yeah...they also went by the Thai daily three..which probably made it even easier for the number seller to lie about the winning numbers...no internet back then, just a phone call I think..like a automated one..so the old g's back then just take the seller's words of what the winning numbers are or were..lols