In spite of misgivings from the chief of police and protests from a neighborhood congregation, the Salinas City Council has paved the way for a no-wagering-limits card room to open.

Almost a year after Police Chief Dan Ortega pulled the plug on Cap’s Saloon, the City Council voted 6-1 to modify the city’s existing ordinance regulating card rooms. The modifications were made in anticipation of an application for a card room in Oldtown Salinas.
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SIERRA VISTA — As the judge explains to me how poker is not gambling, I understand him, and maybe even agree with him on an intellectual level. Simultaneously however, as the players and dealers ready for the evening’s Texas Hold ‘em event, stacking the chips and shuffling the cards, my mouth starts to water as it might if I were walking past a spinning roulette wheel or a blackjack table with one empty seat.
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House members are expected to vote on a compromise version of the Texas Hold ‘Em bill, which would levy a lower tax than first proposed.

A revised version of the bill passed the Senate late last week, and now moves on to the House.
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All across America, people are playing poker in their homes, fire halls and even community centers that also house local police headquarters. Those playing include the politicians, attorneys, law enforcement agents, and citizens from all walks of life. In many of the states, thanks to antiquated and often confusing gambling laws, these citizens are breaking the law and don’t even know it.
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The Poker Players Alliance’s Washington state director, Lee Rousso, had his day in court Thursday challenging the state’s anti-online poker law. To liven things up, the PPA held a rally outside the hearing venue at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, Wash.
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The debate on gambling in Pennsylvania shifted Thursday, if only briefly, to craps, poker and blackjack, instead of whether the Legislature set up a flawed regulatory mechanism to vet who should win a slot-machine casino license.

The Democratic-led House Gaming Oversight Committee took the first step on a bill to legalize table games at the state’s licensed slots casinos, holding a hearing on it despite heavy opposition in the Senate to expanding the state’s gambling platter.
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“The pursuit of happiness:” To one Renton man, that includes the right to play poker online. He makes his argument today (Thursday) in King County Superior Court that a state law that quashes that right is unconstitutional. KUOW’s Phyllis Fletcher reports.
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Listen to Dino Rossi (R-WA) discuss the state’s online poker ban and state that he would sign legislation repealing it:

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Listen to Dino Rossi (R-WA) discuss the state’s online poker ban and state that he would sign legislation repealing it:
 

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