OK, I'll be honnest with you...

I should have mentioned this before instead of asking veiled questions.

My friend has recently aquired a boatload of money.

He wants to open a standalone cardroom somewhere, and the funny thing is, he doesn't care where. He asked me if I knew where it was 'legal' to open one...

Now I know he's going to be in touch with his lawyers to hammer it out, but since I am going to be somewhat involved in the process, I thought I would ask the question to the largest gathering of online poker players around.

So... states where stand alone cardrooms are legal.

Any info would be great...

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

I think you should come to Denver and make it legal.

[tubalkain]

Iowa. If it's not legal now (I'm pretty sure it's not), $50k to the right gubernatorial candidate would probably make it legal.

haha... while he does have deep pockets, he does not have political connections. He does have dual citizenship, however.

Any serious answers? 2+2 discounts for all, haha

[bravos1]

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haha... while he does have deep pockets, he does not have political connections. He does have dual citizenship, however.

Any serious answers? 2+2 discounts for all, haha

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Serious answer??

OK, he should have his damn lawyer get this info! Isn't that part of what he gets paid for? If his lawyer will be "hammering" out the details.. I think this is a pretty big one that should be hammered out early!

You're right. I just wanted to give him some early options to make it look like I'm helping out.

This guy isn't an idiot who won the lottery, the money is part of a buyout. I figured I could give him a list of states for him to look over to help speed up the process. I'm just as excited about this as he is! My good buddy wants to BUILD a poker room... a pretty classy one it sounds like.

Anyway... you're right. He'll have laywers on it. I just wanted to help get a jump start. I figured someone might know some states off the top of their head besides Nevada and California. I'm a clueless Canadian [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

[The Goober]

serious suggestion: have him come to seattle and revive the hideaway. The hideaway is a very old cardroom (just poker, no table games) that went out of business about a year ago. Its got quite a reputation and a lot name-recognition, but the last owner (Aaron Katz, if you've heard of him) tried to revive it and failed. A lot of people were scared away because the building is sorta run-down and the parking lot is poorly lit, etc... (and imho, aaron mismanaged it). If you buddy bought it, though, he'd have a lot of advantages right out the door because its so well known and the location is great (its the closest cardroom to seattle - its just across the border in shoreline). I have a feeling that old chips and tables are still in storage somewhere too.

[etgryphon]

Honestly...

You could go down to Miss or LA. I think they just changed the rules and now you can have land based casinos. I think they also are redesignating casinos as normal businesses and giving them tax breaks and support from the state government.

-Gryph

[DrCool]

There are lots of places in Washington that could use a good card room. Here in Spokane the city is taxing all the cardrooms too much forcing them to move outside city limits. The nicest room in town is being forced to move in the next couple months. Most of the other rooms are kinda dumpy. I would think a nicely appointed, well run card room that spread good games and served good food would do very well.

[Schneids]

Build a nice one in MN, Canterbury could use some competition.