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Posted Sun Nov 26, 2006 3:39 pm GMT by 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?
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Posted Sun Nov 26, 2006 5:27 pm GMT by Geno
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.............
Posted Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:49 pm GMT by 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.
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