Baltimore MD Cardroom Busted

[Nepa]

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Baltimore is a very very dangerous city, busting up poker houses is ridiculous.


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Some places in town are dangerous but I believe this happened down in the Interhabor which is pretty safe.

[StevieG]

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but your argument that it is "far better for society" doesn't hold much water.


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Why not? In a society that calls itself free, the burden is on government to prove that something is harmful in order to prohibit it.

But getting back to the more practical...

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Anyway, if some genius didn't put an ad in the paper advertising the tournament maybe this would not have happened. Either that or the illegal booze... which is probably what got vice interested in the first place.


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Agreed.

[StevieG]

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I think that is bad idea to include Florida as a forward thinking state.

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Yes, Washington state seems to have a much better model for cardrooms.

Regardless, it is better as a first step to legalize betting and wagers between individuals.

The fact that you can go to Pimlico and wager, or buy a lottery ticket, but nickel-dime home games and office pools are illegal makes the law an ass.

[slamdunkpro]

All the games were shut down and the club was closed.

[lefty rosen]

Does the racing industry(which is a strong lobby group within the state) want competition? I can't see them wanting legal poker in the state unless they can have games on site. How many bad poker players in other jurisdictions could have been bad horse bettors if poker weren't legal through card halls or casinos?

[Python49]

didnt realize so many md 2+2'ers

[StevieG]

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Does the racing industry(which is a strong lobby group within the state) want competition? I can't see them wanting legal poker in the state unless they can have games on site. How many bad poker players in other jurisdictions could have been bad horse bettors if poker weren't legal through card halls or casinos?

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True enough, Lefty. But that strength is questionable. Governor Ehrlich has been pressing for leaglizing slot machines, partially to aid state horse racing, and can't get it through the legislature.

Poker might be more palatable. Canterbury in Minnesota is a good example. Through the first three months of 2005 the racing handle was $13.7M and the card room brought in an extra $4.5M. Link to Canterbury SEC filing.

Plus, unlike slots, which are available in WV and DE (and soon to be PA) MD would have th epoker market to themselves.

Doubtful this will happen, though. The slots debate has been painful enough, and despite the boom in poker's popularity, slots would bring in far more revenue.

[dmk]

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didnt realize so many md 2+2'ers

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there aren't

[toby]

and none of us have Neteller [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[ZeusXIX]

this was no nice area