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Old 06-25-2007, 06:24 PM
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Default Re: Are there enough NYC poker players who care to...

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Who?

Anyway, there are really two exceptions to the gambling ban under NY Law. The first and biggest is the various forms of state sponsored gambling -- lotteries, horse racing, the slots in Yonkers. (The second is charitable gambling and that is only allowed with in a narrow band that does not include poker -- despite all the charitable poker tournaments.) There is very little incentive to begin the political fight to legalize for-profit gambling in any form. There is also a fairly strong and organized lobby against it (the morals/religous police as well as the lobbies paid for by the Indian Casinos and AC).
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