UK - Interesting one this...

[pm_french]

Locally to me there is an organisation who hold nightly (Mon-Thurs) freeze-outs in members only social clubs round about. I was chatting to the guy who runs these about the legality and his comments were basically saying that because they are freezeouts and everyone starts with the same then it comes under the same rules as bingo.

He was saying the rebuys are a little different because not all participants are equal.

Seems crazy to me. Anyone any thoughts on this?

[HalfSugar]

Sounds like horseshit to me but it's worth checking out I guess. I can't help but think that if this were true, poker would be far more rampant in the UK than it is currently.............

[Muck]

This sounds very much like a personal assumption that he’s deduced rather than legal knowledge

Unfortunately the law simply doesn’t work like this. If it did people in the US could gamble on-line playing poker, just like they can still gamble on-line with horses and the lottery.

From my experience and research (when I move my home game to our local pub) it’s okay if there’s no money changing hands. If there is the only grey area is running tourneys for points which can be converted to prize after a series of games.

[melal20]

I agree, best thing to do is play for chips, as long as there is no money on the table or passed over in public view, they should be fine.

we used to that in a pub i drank in. Closing was at 11pm, but we then would have a "private party" and as long as no money was taken over the bar we could stay open all hours. people would then pay their tab the next day.
dont see why it cant be done for poker aswell

[maymajik]

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[melal20]

wow i completely forgot about this place, that post was from 2008 ))