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Monday, January 31, 2005
Poker Events Subject to State Laws
The latest gambling craze may be against the law in some places.
In bars, bowling alleys and other venues, an increasing number of people are showing up for poker tournaments. But many of those gambling events springing up around the country may be in violation of state laws.
Poker is all over cable and broadcast TV. For example, ESPN not only backs a tournament, it has a new dramatic series built around poker. Part of the impact however, is that people in many states want to go out and play themselves.
"Almost every day," said Carolyn Beck of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, "I get an e-mail or a phone call from someone saying, 'Hey, we want to hold a poker tournament, we want to do 'x,' 'y,' 'z,' these are the details, please tell me that that's legal.' "
She doesn't give an answer, she explained, because different district attorneys have different thresholds for what's legal and what's not. Wyoming Attorney General Patrick Crank, for instance, is getting questions from law enforcement about Texas Hold 'Em tournaments—and his answers are clear.
"Wyoming is a state where virtually any form of gambling is unlawful," Crank said.
Chad Hills, gambling analyst at Focus on the Family, said every state has its own nuances when it comes to gambling laws.
"Some of them are very complex, some of them are very simple," he said. "But, unfortunately, there's a lot of gray area around this, just like there is around Indian or tribal gambling right now."
The fallout from this epidemic of gambling, he added, will be increasing numbers of gambling addicts.
Hills said he is especially concerned about young people's susceptibility to gambling, noting he has seen 10-year-old boys buying poker chips and cards at a discount store.
FOR MORE INFORMATIONTo learn more about the problem of gambling, please see the Focus on Social Issues Web site. by Stuart Shepard,
correspondentFamily News/family.org
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