Setting up a Poker Room

[smithy69]

no idea to be honest - all i know is that they are licensed.

[Royal Flush]

no idea to be honest - all i know is that they are licensed.

 

[mikkyT]

With ref to MikkyT's views, I suspect they are promoting it as a more general leisure place. Either they have good advice or they should have spoken to someone else!

If they're promoting it as a general leisure place, maybe they should have picked a different website address...

http://www.loosecannonpoker.com/

Okay, I shall pull up the relevant section of the 1967 gaming act (and its amendments for slot machines and national lottery...)

Perhaps the relevant gaming commision officials and police have said "we will not interfere, we believe what you are doing is all above board" - common sense prevails. Or perhaps Roy is lying. The same thing is true of the Wabash club, just around the corner from Cincinnatis. They get a visit once a month from the police who make sure everything is okay and there are no problems etc. Cincins got raided most likely because someone snitched about the rake.

But the letter of the law is clear. Private members clubs should not be set up purely for the purpose of gaming. Its clear as crystal in the original act, and if local authorities are turning a blind eye due to common sense then fair enough.

[smithy69]

I don't have anything to do with the card place, am only relaying facts to you. The why's and where's I dont know. As i said I am just passing on information.

[Exorcism]

With ref to MikkyT's views, I suspect they are promoting it as a more general leisure place. Either they have good advice or they should have spoken to someone else!

If they're promoting it as a general leisure place, maybe they should have picked a different website address...

http://www.loosecannonpoker.com/

You may have a point........

[mikkyT]

Can poker be run in a private members club?
Equal chance gaming can take place in a private members club. The club must have a membership of not less than twenty-five and must be formed for the general benefit of its members and not for commercial gain for the proprietor or any such persons. Gaming must not be the principal purpose for which the club is established or conducted. No bankers' games are allowed.

Where the club is registered by the licensing authority they can charge members up to a limit of £2 per day. Clubs that have not registered can only charge 60p per day.

Its not the act itself, but it is the official word on the act. When I looked into this last year, I downloaded all the relevant acts and ammendments both for scotland and for engliand & wales but I cant find where I downloaded them

Registration under the act as a private members club (not for profit!) is a mere £325 pouinds plus a yearly £120 renewal fee. You can operate unlicenced but the restrictions on charges are greater.

[Graham C]

These things always look so simple to do, but they never are.  There will be more than this club spending £10k and all of a sudden taking £1k per day - nothing in life is that simple.

Get a syndicate of people together that are interest, set up home games hiring out halls to play in if no one can host them, ship them round a bit if you have to have a bash at this.

[Nem]

Roy Houghton's new club is £93 per quarter

[mikkyT]

Just to flip this up-side its head... From teh same webpage:

What is poker?

Poker is a card game involving chance and skill and is therefore classed as gaming under the Gaming Act 1968. Players bet into a communal pot during the course of a hand, and the player holding the best hand at the end of the betting wins the pot.

So the gambing officials reconise that poker involves some sort of skill but they are sure that it is still covered under the act. I still beg to differ, until a grey wig wearing toff can determine otherwise.

[thetank]

Which is less than yer average gym membership. (who don't operate poker games)

Every time I go on that treadmill, it's a gamble.

[mikkyT]

Roy Houghton's new club is £93 per quarter

Fits, if the club is licenced (can't see how though) and member plays every day then he is being charged just over £1 per day.

[thetank]

Mikky, sounds like that website yer on is talking shoite.

[Nem]

Mikky, sounds like that website yer on is talking shoite.

Its a Government website

[size=04pt]says it all[/size]

[mikkyT]

Mikky, sounds like that website yer on is talking shoite.

Its not talking shite, its quoting from the 1968 gaming act, which I have read but now cannot find. Its a government website and until 2007 the information on it is correct. (Yes, I know the governement doesn't usually have websites which are correct but this one is lol)

[bolt pp]

Mikky, sounds like that website yer on is talking shoite.

Its not talking shite, its quoting from the 1968 gaming act, which I have read but now cannot find. Its a government website and until 2007 the information on it is correct. (Yes, I know the governement doesn't usually have websites which are correct but this one is lol)

Because it was repealled(along with the other two main gaming acts) upon implementation of the newest act.