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Originally Posted by pocket_zeros
The Texas poker rooms have run afoul of the law for years. Many articles have been written about it. Nothing ever happened. Until it does.
They aren’t clearly running afoul of the law, though. Texas AG has declined to issue an opinion on their legality. And the courts haven’t issued any ruling, obviously. Unless you are making claims about specific rooms like Chan’s I don’t understand your point.
Bingo halls have been run legally in Texas for decades. How is setting up a poker room illegal but Bingo halls are okay? I’ve read the laws and my layperson view is that they aren’t any different. If Bingo Halls are legal then the poker clubs should be as well. How are these two operations tangibly different?
The source of instability that worries me is if a major Casino can gain a foothold in TX near one of the big cities. That may require the creation of a gambling commission and a rewrite of the law. Poker clubs would be unlikely to survive major changes to the law. But I cannot predict when this would occur. Maybe it’s 5-10 years down the road, but that’s far from a certainty.