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However, the law is the law, and it says you cannot have a poker room for the purpose of profit.

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I'm not feeling these arguments here. The world we live in is not black and white and always clear cut. Sometimes what is considered morally acceptable by a society changes, sometimes it changes before the written law changes. Usually then law enforcement is lax or chooses to 'look the other way' because believe it or not, the laws and its enforcement is there to benefit us as a people. There are plenty of cases where the law is not strictly enforced, if you possess less than 5 grams of marijuana in Alaska or Berlin Germany it is understood that you will not be arrested even though it is against the law. The jaywalking example in NYC several years ago is another one. The anti-sodomy laws that exist in several states still might be another one.

So when the clubs get shut down there are many players who feel like the law enforcement is breaking some of the unwritten understood rules we've agreed to, namely that poker isn't that bad and that the cops should look the other way.

I'm sympathetic. Doesn't seem like there is much else to do besides complain about it.