Legalities of starting a Holdem tournament at a Pennsylvania Bar.

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If you were to open a poker room in Ohio and charge nothing for entrance, sell nothing in the room, and take no rake could you ask for a donation?

[/ QUOTE ]No and in fact even the act of tipping the dealer/game host technically turns a legal game into an illegal one from what I have been told by a local organization that deals in such things.

I still tip when i cash at my weekly game.