Hey all,

I just moved here from Oklahoma and I'm trying to find a cash game to play a few times a week. If anyone know where I can play or sign up please let me know!

I now live on the University of Houston campus so I'd be down to drive 30ish minutes.

Thanks!

There are no legal rooms. If you're looking for a home game ask in the Home Poker forum.

The closest legal card rooms are in the casinos in LA. There are three in lake Charles about three hours away. There is another at Coushata another forty min past LC.

Rake free? OK! Texas? OK! Maybe you are somehow protected! Good luck to you.

Good luck with that. But I don;t think its legal. I think you have been lucky so far.... but one of the problems people who do things like this run into is that as they expand they increase their exposure.

If it were legal to wager ... I would wager that your operation will get shut down. I don;t know how long it will be .... and quite honestly I don;t wish for it to happen .... but I expect it to happen.

Do you have a link to this?

Everything I can find has 47.10 as the highest numbered section

Without getting to much into your business model or my I can't find a 47.11

If I were you and looking at sections like 47.04 and 47.06 and 47.02 47.03

And then I would note that merely being in a private place doesn't provide defense to this as there are mutiple clauses joined by the conjunction "and"

and one of those clauses is "no person received any economic benefit other than personal winnings" which would not seem consistent with your claim that you are making a profit.

And that is just a quick glance and not even bothering to research whether or not your "private club" would really not be considered open to the public.

not that these two have any in common, but here is another thread about this kind of place. this just seems TGTBT, and maybe the Houstoneers can chime in and tell us if they ever heard of this place

funny how this guy pops in right when this thread is made

here is the other
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...ammer-1641464/

Concur that it is a legally murky area that plays heavily upon the grey areas of Chapter 47. The games in Harris County will be helped by the regime change that came out of the recent election cycle. After all, if the new DA is willing to do catch-n-release for misdemeanor pot cases, I doubt she is going to be vigilant about people playing cards provided there are no other crimes coming out of the property.

There are plenty of games in the area, many of them in areas of Houston that are basically in no-man's land in terms of jurisdiction. Some draw well and some don't...some places are NLH only while others have other games running, to include PLO.

I don't think MINTPoker club and this guy's room are the same. So looks like two competing clubs thinking they are somehow slick.

https://houston.craigslist.org/tix/5899826948.html


LOL

As if I already didn't think I would get robbed going to a poker game listed on CL, they up the ante by advertising armed guards.

The neighborhoods for these games just keep getting crappier and crappier...that area around Thorne Stadium wasn't good when I was in high school in the early 80's...and it definitely hasn't gotten better in the years that have elapsed.

For good or bad, armed guards are routine in Houston at malls, restaurants, even strip clubs, and whatever. This is true almost everywhere; even around the galleria. Houston has no formal zoning. So whatever can and will pop up wherever. I think most of the police take the job just to have the uniform and gun to wear at their evening side job. So having armed guards says little.

FYI the proper place to discuss games of questionable legality is the Poker Legislation forum.