Ridiculous rake - Starting a legal poker game

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There was a club that ran a similar model down in southside(Webster or League City) a few years back, it ran w/o a problem for a few months.

In that room there was actually quite a few law enforcement players(like most Houston rooms), who all believed the way it was being run was legal under TX law.

A local official got word of the place and they were basically told to shut it down or else.

Its funny in Houston there might be more games running on a nightly basis than Vegas.

The big hurdle there is the bible thumpers and the odd year only meeting legislature.