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“Right now we’re forcing (the issue),” Dooly’s vice-president Pierre Lariviere said from headquarters in Moncton, NB. “We’re trying to push government to make a regulation, to say listen guys you can have a game of Texas Hold ‘em and here’s the limit and no game should be bigger than this and that’s how you should do it.”

It’s risky business because the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary has said poker games where money changes hands are illegal.

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The State Doesn’t Even Have a Law Against ‘Gambling’ on the Books

Old and archaic can be used to describe most state laws pertaining to the game of poker in the United States, and Massachusetts is no different. Massachusetts is the second state to go under CardPlayer.com’s home-poker legal examination, and Patrick Fleming — New Hampshire attorney, poker rights advocate, state director of the Poker Players Alliance, and the frontman and lead organizer for the PPA’s litigation network — put it this way when opening the conversation about Massachusetts:

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CENTRAL POINT — Police are warning local poker players to be mindful of state laws outlining the rules of hosting gambling games in private homes.

Jackson County sheriff’s detectives say they are keeping a close eye on a popular weekly Texas Hold’em poker game hosted by Richard Troutman, who operates a game out of his home on Beall Lane in Central Point.

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MISSION – A letter from a NEWSCHANNEL 5 viewer triggers a police investigation and an overnight raid of an illegal gambling operation in Mission.

A worried neighbor tipped us off with an anonymous letter. It says gamblers pack the neighborhood every Saturday night, and it’s been happening for eight months.

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The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court has convicted Eran Rock, a well known figure in the Israeli poker community, of organizing and conducting an illegal game. The court ruled that the Texas Hold ‘em game is not legal

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LAS CRUCES — The New Mexico Gaming Control Board is investigating whether a poker tournament hosted earlier this week in Akela by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma was improper.

But the tribe contends the state has no jurisdiction over its 30-acre parcel of federal trust land, where the tournament took place.

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NORTHPORT | Police in Northport have put a stop to the nightly poker games at One More Lounge, saying that the owners were illegally promoting gambling.

But the owners, Larry and Joyce Watson, said they didn’t believe they were breaking the law.

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AKELA — The Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma hosted a poker tournament with a $10,000 prize at its casino here on Sunday, in an attempt to force a question about whether gaming can occur at the site into federal courts.

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Frank Catania, former Assistant Attorney General and Director of New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, online gaming consultant and independent director of the player protection group eCOGRA gave a straight-from-the-shoulder briefing to state legislators last Friday, emphasising that Internet gambling is here to stay.

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A retired judge who operates poker rooms in southern Arizona in defiance of state investigators says his organization is opening a new card parlor in Phoenix later this month.

Texas Hold’em games operated by Harold Lee of Tombstone have been referred for criminal prosecution several times by agents of the Arizona Department of Gaming, but he has never been charged.

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