BY TOM SOMACH

The home poker game crime wave in the U.S. continues.

For the fourth time in just over two weeks, a home poker game in the U.S. has been robbed by armed gunmen–this time in Texas.

According to media reports out of Texas, police said that no one was injured when four gun-wielding men robbed a home poker game early Tuesday morning in Edinburg, Tex., just north of the Mexican border.

Police said the bandits, clad in ski masks and camouflage clothing, entered through the front door of a private home and threatened their victims with a rifle and handguns, before ordering the five poker-players onto the floor and stealing their cash, credit cards and cell phones, media in Texas reported.

Police added that earlier in the evening, more than 20 people had been at the home playing poker, and police now theorize that some of those players may have returned to rob the game, knowing the location and the amount of money involved, the media reports stated.

Edinburg police chief Quirino Munoz told the media that his investigators have only a “vague and very general” description of the suspects because they were entirely covered.

Reports in the news of home poker game robberies are becoming as commonplace as reports in the news of Paris Hilton sightings.

On the same day as the Texas robbery, armed bandits a thousand miles away robbed a home poker game in Salt Lake City, Utah, without hurting anyone.

And about two weeks ago, an armed robbery of a home poker game near Indianapolis, Indiana, saw a poker player get shot and wounded, after he scuffled with one of the gunmen pulling the robbery.

A day after that robbery, another home poker game, this one in Ashburn, Virginia, was robbed by gun-toting bandits, with no one injured in that incident.

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