BY TOM SOMACH

A dispute over a poker game in Trinidad has resulted in two men being shot to death and three other men being shot and critically wounded.

According to the Trinidad Express, a newspaper based in the twin-island Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, the incident occurred Sunday morning.

A group of men were playing poker at about 7 a.m. at a location called Apple’s Club, when there was an argument about the game, the Express reported.

After the argument, some of the men left, leaving five men remaining at the club playing poker, the Express reported.

The men who left returned later with guns and settled the argument with bullets, shooting the five other poker players, the newspaper reported.

One poker player was killed instantly, another died later at a hospital and three others remain in criticial condition, the Express reported.

Killed were Akeil Daly, 25, and Sheldon Noel, 30; the wounded men were Ronell Blackman, Trevor Garraway and Leroy Noel, who is Sheldon’s brother, the Express reported.

Later in the day, police arrested two men in connection with the shooting, the newspaper reported.

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