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Originally Posted by SethDaStone
The laws here in Georgia are crazy when it comes to poker for real money. Anyone know from personal experience if they are really enforced? Not talking about RAKED games but "friendly" home games.
Note: I am neither a lawyer nor a LEO, but this is based on discussions with both. Thankfully I've never been involved when a game was busted.
As a general rule, cops don't care about home poker games. Even raked games, they're not going to go out of their way to bust unless there is another reason to do so. They have better things to do and would rather devote their time to those items than something that is not impacting anyone outside of their consent.
Games get busted for two reasons:
- There are other factors that gets the attention of LEOs (drugs, other gambling, noise complaints, violence, etc)
- The local DA is trying to make a name for himself by showing he's tough on illegal gambling (this happened a couple of years ago in Gwinnett County).
So for legitimate home games, there should be no worries about the cops showing up unless you're guests are dicks to the neighbors. Obviously, this assumes you're not putting up flyers advertising the game or otherwise shoving it in the faces of the local authorities.