[Dennisa]

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Donations are voluntary and tipping the dealer is not rake. If you have a case for Colorado, please cite it.

For Colorado, membership fees are considered rake only if they are tied to the game. There are very active games at the various country clubs in Denver and they all charge dues, but not specifically for poker.

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I have not case to site. I lived in Colorado for 13 years. I do remember around Superbowl time the radio stations discussing rules for gambling / pools.

If you pay for a membership at a country club, its mainly for the club itself and poker is not a primary benefit. There are no legal poker club memberships in Colorado. If you charged dues for this site, its main service would need to be non gambling related. If its only service is rake free poker, I doubt it will fly in the vanilla poker world.