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Police made 33 arrests and confiscated thousands in cash in a raid last Tuesday night on an alleged gambling operation in Shelbyville, authorities said. One of those arrested was a Franklin County woman.

Participating in the raid were the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Shelbyville Police Department, the 17th Judicial Drug Task Force and the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

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But the owners of the popular Greeley bar said the state officials were out of line with the raid.

“This was a poker club,” Miner said. “It wasn’t formed by our bar, it was a bunch of friends. The house didn’t take a cut of the money, we didn’t force anyone to buy drinks, and we made sure we met all the state requirements.”

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SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. — Police said an illegal gambling operation is no longer in business in Shelbyville after a raid and dozens of arrests.

Officers said that several times during the week, people would line up outside a small building for a chance to play high-dollar poker.

The building was dubbed Little Tunica by police, and officers said with full admission price, people got access to poker and a full buffet of food.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. lawmakers have urged the U.S. Justice Department to suspend its investigation of European Internet gambling companies for possible criminal violations that occurred before Congress passed a law in 2006 to crack down on online gambling.

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Fourteen of the 15 men who face gambling charges have received their “get out of jail card” from the district attorney who has dropped the majority of charges against them.

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A group of east Montgomery poker players got a surprise Friday night when police officers busted in.

They were playing inside a business at 64 Bell Road that was licensed as El Camino, a scooter sales company, police said.

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A poker-loving Tucson couple have opened a card room on the North Side, hoping to provide local players with a cheaper alternative to casinos and give exposure to a growing debate over poker’s legality in Arizona beyond Indian reservations.

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SEWARD – An attorney representing the Seward Volunteer Fire Company emphasized that no members of the small fire department in Westmoreland County have been charged with any crime in connection with Texas Hold-em poker tournaments held at the company’s fire hall last year.

And an attorney representing the tournament organizer who is accused of illegally sponsoring card games for profit argued today that the state has never clearly defined what illegal gambling is, and has never stated clearly whether playing cards for money is illegal.

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SEWARD — Texas hold ’em card games may be popular among poker players, but they aren’t a legal form of gambling in Pennsylvania – as one area fire company is finding out the hard way.

Seward Volunteer Fire Company held at least three money-raising poker tournaments in 2007.

Now, the state Attorney General’s Office is seeking $40,814 from the illegal games.

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Normally, the most vociferous calls for legalizing Internet gaming come from the growing online poker-playing community, offshore gambling site operators, civil libertarians and a handful of select members of Congress.

Add UNLV associate professor Kathryn LaTour to the chorus.

LaTour, who teaches in the William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, has co-authored a study that says the legalization and regulation of online gambling in the United States and Canada could help reduce some of the activity’s harm. Gambling addiction, she said, could be curtailed while regulation would keep underage gamblers out of the virtual casinos.

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