Poker in Texas

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Asualum2015

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I heard that poker is getting closer to being legal in Texas and I was wondering if anyone had any information on how it is going. There is a legal poker house in Austin that popped up a few months ago and it has been raided but not shut down. How can someone do this if it is illegal?
 
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Generally legality is breached when an active tournament fee or cash rake that gets paid toward the house is in-place.

When I'd played organized games in CenTex, there'd be "souvenirs" and drinks one could buy that would also come with x number of free chips to play in a tournament for an example of plausible deniability.

Legislation is always slow as dirt. I'd imagine the methods above will still pretty common in TX for quite some time.
 
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I had saw on another site that a Texas bill just got brought up again to try and get poker legal here in Texas! "Fingers crossed"
 
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I recieved a reply from Curtinsea earlier this year on a simular question and he sent me a interesting link. I found it very informative. You can navigate through several areas. https://legiscan.com/TX/bill/HB292/2013 Then scroll down to gambling under the Subjects title. Good link to keep up with the efforts in Texas to promote on-line poker. I hope this helps. --r
 
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i dont understand why the government feels like they need to get involved in how people spend their money in the first place, yet they have gambling set up by the state in almost every state known as lotto but its really just a form of keno or bingo variation, which is gambling..yet they do allow bingo halls in small cash partitions, and prize based but its still gambling. my idea is if there is a legal poker hall, they have some type of state backing to have it running,, but its just a thought
 
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Agree with greysilver...I have always wonder why they have no problem with lotto, bingo, gas station slots like silver had mention but yet they see poker for the state like a devil.
 
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Hey greysilverfang, google texas house bill hb292 and read through it and see how many hoops they are having to go though to try and get poker here in texas. It has been shot down a couple of times. They are trying to pass it under the same permit that bingo is permitted presently. Now it is in the dept of homeland security for passage. I guess they feel we are funding or luandering money for ISIS, one rake at a time. I am not sure where that stands at the present but will look into it for sure. If it is dead it will arise under another forum later. There is a lot of Texas players who would welcome online poker but will continue to play live in surrounding states (NM.,La.,Ok.). There is a lot of Texas car plates at the casinos there. They maybe fighting Texas also to keep poker and casinos out of Texas for pure loss of their own traffic I'm sure. Just want to thank forums like this so we can vent a little. Tks CC. --r
 
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The government doesn't see online poker as being evil, they just say it's evil because they want it illegal. How is it that online poker is evil, but playing poker in a cardroom isn't? Why is playing poker in your home for money illegal in some places, but yet it's still legal to play in a cardroom? It's really simple the reason online poker is illegal because they can't regulate it on a large enough scale yet. What the government can't control or make a profit from, they'll simply make it illegal.

The government is nothing more than a highly sophisticated Mob. They'll come up with phony baloney excuses as to why something has to be illegal. They'll say it's bad for society or it's hurting our youth to try and sympathize with people who will fall for that act.

If you just take money out of politics a lot of our problems would go away. It's not a good thing when people join politics nowadays because it's a great gig that comes with many perks that you can have for life. People should be getting into politics because they want to what's in the best interest for the American people and not themselves.
 
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i agree with ray and mk in partial to each, they only while they dont see it as evil, they act as if their own shit smells like old spice, illegal doesnt mean wrong, legal doesn't mean right, the law its benefactors, most people didn't try to oppose the bill for poker and casino embargo from over seas merit to that end lays on the people allowance of the congress do what ever they want behind closed doors... thats how the states everywhere were allowed to pass anti gambling laws people simply went along with it, but that still doesnt make it right for them to take advantage of that fact, they want people to believe in their system yet they do just as the mob did back in the 40's-50's they just threaten you with jail instead of your house burning down, or kidnapping your wife and child. or what ever they did if you didnt ante up.... and call it justified.. its pretty easy to stop laws from coming to be simply by be part of the decision, but extremely difficult to get them thrown out..
 
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not illegal and not released to this poker cash game poker and tournament the not a game of chance and skill rather then was approved and released here in brazil in my sorority city has six poker houses
 
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Money is a big part of this, but not necessarily in a way one might suspect. For example, before it was legalized a lot of the money opposing paramutuel betting Texas came from bordering states where such betting was already allowed. One wonders how much of the anti-gambling money in Texas still originates in Oklahoma and Louisiana.
 
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