[Tuff_Fish]

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Would it be legal to offer a subscription service? You don't pay a rake or to play, just a monthly fee to log on.

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Not legal, it is pay for play.
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Or could you have a subscription service for something else (stock market info, news, music, porn, etc.) that offers poker as a free bonus?
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If the right to play is conditional in any way to the purchase of something else..., Illegal. .
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Even selling food and drink in the same proximity as a poker game, ie, having a poker game in the back room of your bar, has been ruled illegal in a number of cases. Even though the purchase of said food and drink is completely voluntary, and you would never be asked to leave if you did not partake.

Again, the actual law may vary, and it is totally lame, but authorities have had a decent track record when they have chosen to push the issue.

TF