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Legal Version of Poker to Open in Little Rock

September 11, 2007 on 3:14 pm | In Poker News |

Not even anti-gambling laws can hold back the expansion of poker.

The National Poker Challenge (NPC) will be bringing the increasingly popular game of luck and strategy to the people of Little Rock, Arkansas very soon in September. The NPC also has poker room franchises in operation in Portland, Oregon and in neighboring Memphis, Tennessee.

The poker room in Little Rock was actually set to open at an earlier date, but the NPC encountered some major setbacks and delays with the city’s anti-gambling laws in the previous month. Little Rock officials said that the NPC game of poker was in clear violation of their city’s no gambling policy.

The NPC argued that their version of poker does not break any laws and that no real gambling occurs during their poker games. They proudly market their game as “The Nation’s Only Non-Gambling Legal Poker Tournament” and they even have their own no gambling policy. However, most players do fork over some cash to have their monthly playing performance monitored and are also given the option to compete in tournaments with prize money.

The Little Rock Police Department still says that the NPC poker game is illegal and that winning anything by luck is considered as gambling. Then in that line of thought, maybe raffles and bingo games should be banned too.

News source: KATV Channel 7