D.C. Card Rooms

[PoorLawyer]

Are there any and how are they?

[Rams_Law]

Nah, they attract a bad element and ruin the neighborhoods for the crack dens. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Signed,

M. Barry

[Wyrm2]

Nope, the nearest legal cardrooms are in Atlantic City [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

[John Deere]

I wish...

They should have been petitioning last month to get a poker room, instead of a slot casino.

[deathtoau]

One step at a time. They have the lotto and are looking at slots. Within 10 years they hopefully might bring in some skill games.

[skcubrats]

I think that they should do better than West Virginia and Delaware(slots) and Maryland(thinking about slots) and do the FULL CASINO. But people come to Washington to see the Washington Monument and the Smithsonian, not to gamble.

[ElSapo]

The old firehouses are gone, alas... Rumor has a constant 10/20 going in the Watergate, but I've never been able to confirm this.

[mmcd]

I'd be a little surprised if there aren't any, and if in fact there aren't there definately should be. I think theres at least a fair amount of people with a lot money in the D.C. metro area and it would be possible to get some pretty decent stakes games. If the operators of the club could attract some of the "right" clientel they would be somewhat protected from interference and might not even have to bother paying off any local cops. I'd think any local organized crime type or even just an entrepreneurial bookie would be able to make this profitably work.

[MisterKing]

Reliable sources inform me that there's a game that goes on in the U.S. Capitol late on weekdays (Wed/Thu), but I don't know anything more about it than that. I imagine this is an impossible game to get into, what with members of Congress and all being the chief participants.