Home Poker Law
Home poker games are not specifically mentioned in the laws that were created to regulate home gambling. But in the past couple of years there has been a wide acceptance of poker by society as a game of skill (although it still has a long way to go). Therefore, it stands to reason that anyone caught organizing or playing in a home poker game will probably not be punished to the full extent of the law. Most home gambling laws were created for 2 reasons: to protect citizens from developing dangerous gambling habits as a results of easy access to gambling establishments and to keep citizens from profiting by running a gambling establishment. Home poker games, for the most part, are not guilty of either of these things. As long as they are unraked and low-stakes they are harmless and although they are breaking the letter of the law, they are abiding by the spirit of the law.
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