Re: legality of raked tables for all participants in ontario
The police will usually not try to charge players.
It is the organizers that they are after.
The most you risk is confiscation or any and all money present.
You would likely be charged under section 201 of the Criminal Code:
201. (1) Every one who keeps a common gaming house or common betting house is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.
Person found in or owner permitting use
(2) Every one who
(a) is found, without lawful excuse, in a common gaming house or common betting house, or
(b) as owner, landlord, lessor, tenant, occupier or agent, knowingly permits a place to be let or used for the purposes of a common gaming house or common betting house,
is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.
The police probably wouldn't waste the time to prosecute summary conviction offences against a pile of people.
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