{"id":16591,"date":"2015-08-17T09:40:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16591"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:46:44","slug":"poker-outlawed-in-wisconsin-a-new-game-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/poker-outlawed-in-wisconsin-a-new-game-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker outlawed in Wisconsin; A new game in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Score one against private poker games and score one for tribal casinos, which are now the only places in Wisconsin<\/strong> where one can legally play poker. As Poker News<\/em> put it, ” the fact remains even \"poker-card\"<\/a>playing poker for pennies against grandma constitutes a crime.” A crowdfunded lawsuit by poker players<\/a> challenging state law met with a not-unsympathetic but ultimately negative verdict from Judge Richard G. Niess<\/strong>. Saying his “hands are tied” by a 1964 legal precedent<\/a>, Niess ruled,\u00a0“I’ve got to say that poker is such a rich topic on so many levels. It’s as much a part of the American fabric, I think, as baseball and apple pie, but having said that, I can\u2019t ignore the law here, and the law unfortunately, to use a poker analogy, is a stacked deck against the plaintiffs here.”<\/p>\n

Niess allowed that “poker involves, in the long run, if you look at it in the long run, more skill than chance.” He referred the plaintiffs to either the Legislature or the state Supreme Court. Poker pro Mark Kroon<\/strong> took the ruling like a good sport, saying, “[Niess]\u00a0was a nice enough guy, tried to let us down easy, but I think there’s just so many ruling against poker that they can’t ignore that.” He conceded that reversing Wisconsin law might be “an impossible task.”<\/p>\n