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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Poker Players told to Fold'em in Sydney
Poker Gazette: (SYDNEY, N.S.) The provincial gaming authority is telling bar owners to drop their popular Texas Hold 'Em poker games.
Televised tourmanents featuring Hollywood stars are fuelling a poker craze throughout North America. To meet demand in Sydney, local pubs stepped in because the game isn't offered at the casino.
More than 30 people were showing up at Ardon Moffard's pub every Wednesday night for Texas Hold 'Em games – a much-needed boost for business.
"It's challenging to get people in a pub any night. So it was good to have the revenue generated by the game," Moffard said.
He insists those profits were in food and drink, not from the game. Moffard said money never changed hands and the only thing passed around was free merchandise from breweries and liquor companies.
But the province got involved.
"The liquor board stepped in and decided there wouldn't be any more games, I guess due to ... the fear of money changing hands in the pub," Moffard said.
The executive director of the alcohol and gaming authority, Dennis Kerr, said bars can host card games, including Texas Hold 'Em, for fun.
There are three elements needed to cross the line into gambling: an entry fee, a game and a prize. Kerr's concern is that gambling would happen without the bar owner's consent.
"We just want to make sure they don't get in trouble. There is potential in these tournaments for side bets and so forth and if some of those issues happen, it's the licencee that will be held accountable," he said.
If a bar owner does want to hold a tournament, Kerr said, they should talk to a lawyer first. Until then, poker players should hold 'em.
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