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How does ACES award $ for free
poker?
ACES League, like a
pool league, band, or a DJ
brings customers to
the bar, so the bar pays the league a fee every night. $150-100 depending on the
size of the game.
The Tournament
Director gets paid a small amount for running the game, the rest goes into the
prize pool.
Unfortunately, if
games get cancelled, no money gets collected and the prize pool goes down, so
please support your bars and show up but just don't loiter
in the bar.
So, it's free to play cards, but not
hang out in the bar
and not spend a dime.
If you're broke, then it's okay to
stay home.
How is this legal?
According to
Virginia Law, Gambling is illegal.
“Illegal gambling” is
defined in Section 18.2-325 of the
Code as “the making,
placing or receipt of any bet or wager in this Commonwealth
of money or other
thing of value, made in exchange for a chance to win a prize,
stake or other
consideration or thing of value, dependent upon the result of any
game, contest or any
other event the outcome of which is uncertain or a matter
of chance, whether
such game, contest or event, occurs or is to occur inside or
outside the limits of
this Commonwealth.”
For it to be
unlawful, there must be all 3 things:
A Game of Chance
Paying to Play
(consideration)
Awarding winnings
(a prize)
Now, while some may
think that Poker is a game of skill and NOT a game of chance, that's how the
state sees it.
The Portsmouth Poker halls
got away with it in the past,
because some in the city
government believed it was a game of skill.
So, to break the
link of 3, we don't pay to play.
There's no buy-in,
no cover charge, no requirement to pay money to play cards.
Now, the bar may
require 'customers' to spend a little money or be asked to leave.
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