State ruling brings charity poker runs to a halt
Local motorcycle clubs and other groups who raise money by giving cash prizes in charity poker runs have had their bluff called by the Texas Attorney General.
In a ruling issued Tuesday, Attorney General Greg Abbott said such poker runs, which involve participants making a monetary donation to a nonprofit cause and then riding to a predetermined location and drawing a poker hand for cash, are a “lottery” set up by the motorcycle club and constitute illegal gambling.
The Texas Penal Code defines a lottery as “any scheme or procedure whereby one or more prizes are distributed by chance among persons who have paid or promised consideration for a chance to win anything of value, whether such scheme or procedure is called a pool, lottery, raffle, gift, gift enterprise, sale, policy game, or some other name.”
However, Abbott’s ruling refers only to cash prizes awarded at the end of poker runs…
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Useful poker terms:
- TOP TWO PAIR - In flop games, having hole cards that make the highest possible two pair hand.
- CRYING CALL - A call made with little chance of ultimately winning, but marginally better than an immediate fold.
- OPENERS - Cards in a hand that qualify a player to open the betting.
- BOAT - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
- MITES AND LICE - A hand consisting of two pair, threes over twos.
- BARN - A FULL HOUSE, three of a kind and a pair.
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