Trying to do my bit !!!
Below is a copy of the letter I sent to The Times last Friday...Hasn't been printed....Yet!! Oh yes for any who may wonder what a theocracy is ...its a person or organisation that acts as if they are God!!
Sir.
On Wednesday the 26th of April Mr Rob Yong appeared at Nottingham Magistrates Court to apply for his Licence to operate , effectively, this countries first legal Poker Card Room. Mr Yong is an individual with whom I have no conection. Mr Yong to his credit has had to initially secure the premises ,he hopes to operate from, before he could apply for a Consent Certificate from the Gambling Commision. Apply for change of use for the premises and then construct and fit out the premises before finally applying to the Magistrates Court for a licence.
Mr Yong should be commended for doing things the correct way and treading a thoroughly legal path to steer clear of any indication that his actions could be construed as illegal. However at Nottingham Magistrates Court three objectors turned up in the form of Gala Casinos,Stanley Casinos and LCI (London Clubs International)The case was adjourned until September due to there objections.
It fills me with disgust that a man who attempts to break into the Gaming industry, by opening a Poker Card Room, with his own financing finds the might of industrial gaming turned on him with stalling tactics to clearly try and bankrupt him and acting in the manner of a theocracy.
I believe Mr Yong gave an undertaking that he had no intrest to operate any Table games of the like seen in usual Casinos clearly steering away from confrontation with the large Casinos, the large Casinos on the other hand appear to be up for a fight, horrified, no doubt at the thought that an individual can operate what the Poker playing public want and deprive them of a miniscule amount of their income.
If ,in an era of competition and the widening of our gaming laws, we see a card club being subjected to the full weight of the Casino groups lawyers, one dreads to think about what will occur when the licences for the new large and super Casinos are handed out. Self intrest will prevail over competition.....Game of Chance ? I think not
Neil W*****