Elderly members of the Minoru Place Seniors' Centre in Richmond, BC, Canada were prohibited from playing in that place their favorite afternoon pastime, Texas Hold'em, simply because they were playing with cash involved, which is clearly a violation of provincial gambling regulations.
It only costs you 10 cents a chip for a buy-in to the Texas Hold'em games held at the Minoru Place Seniors' Centr[...] Read more » Richmond officials shut down seniors’ small-stakes poker circle
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All i can say I really hate some politicians, so stupid to have such laws with no exceptions and now all that was done here is that officers wanted to show hiw good they work and get the result in their case maybe even get a medal for their "good" work. Go and fight against people who gamble from millions and not elderly guys playing from cents
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What possible harm could these guys be doing to anybody by having a poker game?? Surely, the authorities could turn a blind eye to this and i hope common sense prevails and they can go back to playing
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so who was that pesky rat who told the police about massive illegal gambling operations at Minoru Place Seniors' Centre in Richmond, BC, Canada? surely not the sore loser? cannot say that i support the officials in this situation...
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Well they can start playing with cookies, different ones and name the each cookie for a coin or a note. When the game is over they can make the conversions according to the cookies they hold and eat them too.
10 cents games in a seniors club. What a violation.
Governments of different countries have created in their countries a big bureaucratic apparatus and even if it works incorrectly it means that it is necessary to recognize that the government has become animated and this will never happen
Posted by pochui: so who was that pesky rat who told the police about massive illegal gambling operations at Minoru Place Seniors' Centre in Richmond, BC, Canada? surely not the sore loser? cannot say that i support the officials in this situation...
Imagine all those SWAT guys showing up next time for da bingo night as well...
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Yes like bowie1984 tells funny, what if group of policemen show up in every senior how from now? I wonder what sort of expense is this, thise people are paud wages and they go and tell senior people to stop gambling from frw cents? Is this economically sorth doing, there are bigger crimes to stop
Posted by Gerimantas: I wonder what sort of expense is this, thise people are paud wages and they go and tell senior people to stop gambling from frw cents? Is this economically sorth doing, there are bigger crimes to stop
Not only there are bigger crimes to stop, but to treat these people as common criminals because they are like to play cards with some stake at hand is surreal.
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Im from vancouver where this went down and bingo is a game played at every single retirement home. How could they allow that which is also a regulated game abd not allow holdem? That seems a bit hypocritical to me
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Here we have response from member of this site from same city and he only confirmed that this situation was handled very bad by police and i am not surprised ny this, government officials in all countries have many bad moves and decisions very ofthen, so this is just another example
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