Celeb launches Muncie, Indiana, poker club (indystar.com)

[Tom1975]

I wish them the best of luck. Seriously. Having said that, I’d be surprised if this place is open longer than a week. It’s all well and good that the local DA and mayor are supportive, but there are probably some state officials who see things very differently. Last year casinos in Indiana generated 3/4 of a billion dollars in tax revenue. There’s no way the state’s just going to sit on their hands and let an unlicensed unregulated untaxed cardroom operate and potentially suck customers away from the legal tax paying casinos. If they had kept this on the down low, given that the local officials were willing to turn a blind eye, they might have been OK. Now that a story has been published in the media, I think their goose is cooked. If the state doesn’t step in and clamp down immediately, rooms like this will be popping up all over. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.