BY TOM SOMACH

Less than a day after an armed robbery of a home poker game in Indiana left one man wounded, another home poker game was robbed by gunmen in Virginia.

According to Leesburg Today, a Virginia newspaper, the Loudoun County (Va.) Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Wednesday incident in which a home poker game was the target of three bandits, who burst through a door brandishing guns at a group of unsuspecting poker players in Ashburn, Va., USA.

The Sherriff’s Office said the incident began at 12:15 a.m., when masked gunmen entered a residence through a basement door, the newspaper reported.

According to the Sherriff’s Office, two of the men then brandished firearms as a third man grabbed one of the poker players and ordered the other two poker players to get on the ground, the newspaper reported.

The Sherriff’s Office said the bandits, mask-wearing young black men, then stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the poker table and fled the scene in what may have been a small, light-colored sport utility vehicle, the newspaper reported.

“Most home invasions have a specific target that the suspects are looking for,” Loudon County Sherriff’s Office spokesman Kraig Troxell told the paper. “They’re not random targets.

“They’re specific targets, where the suspects know there’s a large amount of cash or something of value in the home,” he added. “The apparent target in this incident was the poker game.”

Less than 24 hours earlier, and just a few hundred miles away, a home poker game near Indianapolis, Ind., USA, was robbed by a pair of gunmen who shot one of the poker players in the process.

The shot player was not seriously injured.

(E-mail Tom Somach at tomsomach@yahoo.com.)