Is it legal to play cash poker in your country?

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In my country playing poker for cash will be counted as gambling and will go to jail for it. I k know if it counts as old-fashioned
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Yes we are allowed to play any kinds of poker.
But only in the state casinos.
We used to have many pokerrooms in Vienna but the state didn't renew their license so now I only can go to the Casinos austria which unfortunately have a very poor offer of pokergames 🙄
Playing almost only online since then ....
 
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Illegal hosting of gambling is fined in germany. If you´ve been a dirty boy in the past though, they might put you in jail for 1-2 years.
But I never heard about anyone getting punished for hosting a private poker "event" where amounts are usually low.
 
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In my country playing poker for cash will be counted as gambling and will go to jail for it. I k know if it counts as old-fashioned
Hi
I am from Ukraine, and in our country poker is officially recognized as a sport. Of course, this does not allow entrepreneurs to open gambling clubs anywhere, but nevertheless, in my country you can play online quite legally.
Good luck :)
 
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Hello, in my country it is regulated, in most rooms you can play, but this happened a couple of years ago since you could not play in the best-known rooms, today partypoker is not regulated in argentina
 
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Our rules in the UK are fairly relaxed so you can play in a regulated environment like a casino or play home games and even in public places like a pub although the prize pools and buy ins are limited in a public place which isn't regulated.

All winnings are tax free also which is a bonus.
 
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In theory, only MTT freezeouts are allowed here, but there are Cash Games and tourneys with add on and rebuys everywhere.
 
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you see what Baoka wrote, play online and it's safe, he's from your country but he already knows how to bypass the system so if you want to play poker, you have two options not to play or listen to Baoc from your country who apparently is already playing and he doesn't care about the laws of the country and I would abstain if it's forbidden in my country I wouldn't play poker is the best option but poker is allowed in my country and I play it
 
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Я из Украины, и в нашей стране покер официально признан видом спорта. Конечно, это не позволяет предпринимателям где-либо открывать игорные клубы, но тем не менее в моей стране играть онлайн можно вполне легально.
Удачи:)
you're at war there just like you're playing poker rockets are flying quietly outside bombs war are coming and you're sitting quietly at home playing poker you need to be taken to a military unit to serve the country and fight: Roflmao: Good luck at the poker tables you have a lot of businessmen play poker and launder money so I just heard about it
 
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In my country playing poker for cash will be counted as gambling and will go to jail for it. I k know if it counts as old-fashioned
In the UK. The prize pool in any unlicensed event cannot by law exceed £100 therefore if you have 20 players each buying in for £5 it should by Law be limited to those 20 players, However there are times when we exceed the 20 player maximum and some times had 3 or even 4 tables going, with up to 8 players a table all buying in for £5 each. I did once host a poker game where we had 5 tables of 8 players, Each buying in for £10 and we ran it like a Bounty Hunter Game as a Christmas Special, but that was a one off.
Cash Tables however are illegal in every Pub, they do happen but it still doesn't mean the are are Legal. the only place you can take part in a Cash game is in a Licensed Casino,
We ran a legitimate, game in our local Pub and one of our regular players was a Police Sargent, and he once said the Police had bigger problems than busting a £5 Poker Game and as long as there was no trouble, from the players, (fighting etc) They wouldn't be pressing any charges on us.
Follow the KISS Rule (Keep it Simple, Stupid) and you cannot go wrong.
 
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Yes we can play for money. In a club environment there are chips at the table. Don’t think I have ever played an organised game with cash money actually on the table.
 
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Besides on line, almost every casino in canada offers poker cash games (tax free of course). There are tons of private cash games all over the place. It's all about who you know. Some of the private games have great perks: Free food, free alcohol of all kinds. These of course are non legal, they never seem to get bothered. Sometimes they are on the native reservation and the authorities would never go there.
 
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Yes, poker in my country Argentina is legal and luckily if you have good results you can live comfortably on your winnings.
 
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In my country, it is legal to play poker in licensed casinos. However, this is not permissible.
 
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Yes, there are even great poker players here
 
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It is legal in Casinos and Poker Rooms but not legal somewhere alse not really, but if you are privat with friend, nobody knows.
 
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Excellent question. A couple of years ago casinos in Venezuela reopened, before it was illegal, now you could say that they are more flexible. I haven't been to play in one yet, but it's in my plans to experience poker face to face.
 
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Hi
I am from Ukraine, and in our country poker is officially recognized as a sport. Of course, this does not allow entrepreneurs to open gambling clubs anywhere, but nevertheless, in my country you can play online quite legally.
Good luck :)
Of course, I could be wrong, but as far as I know, in Ukraine “tournament poker” is considered a sport, but not all poker!!!
 
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Not only is it legal it is encouraged... Especially where I live because there's no rake. :oops: :unsure: :p :cool:
 
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Hi
I am from Ukraine, and in our country poker is officially recognized as a sport. Of course, this does not allow entrepreneurs to open gambling clubs anywhere, but nevertheless, in my country you can play online quite legally.
Good luck :)
I'm also from Ukraine and have been playing cash games online at POKERBET for quite some time. But as far as I know, offline play is prohibited by law in Ukraine, only tournaments can be played with real money entries, but cash games are prohibited.
 
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In my country it is legal, the drawback is that there are few casinos available. They are mostly found in major cities
 
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All these restrictions do not bring anything good, both for players and for rooms. For me, there are no problems playing poker, there are more problems with depositing/withdrawing money, commissions, exchange rates, and access of Internet providers to the application, some do nothing, but get rich at the same time)
 
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Yes we are allowed to play any kinds of poker in my country but only in legal and licensed places.
 
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