Is it legal for 3 or 4 guys to sit at a bar and play some hands of poker for cash with each other or roll dice on the bar for cash bets? I have seen this a few times recently, sometimes with 5 or 6 guys huddled around the people playing and placing cash bets with each other as well! And I am talking VERY openly, like a few hundred bucks cash on the bar top or table at any given moment!

I'm pretty good with law stuff, and as far as I have been able to tell from my research this is perfectly legal in CO as long as the business is not profiting in any way from the gambling, and the people involved are associated by some other means other than the act of gambling. As far as I know, this is a group of good friends, the bar is not taking any sort of cut, and the bar is not setting up these games or "sponsoring" them in any way.(although the bartender will try his luck with his buddies every now and then while on duty...)

Is there anything in the liquor code dealing with their licenses that would be affected by this? This just seems a little off to me... Am I missing a big part of the puzzle, or am I just overreacting to something that you just don't usually see anymore?

(Side note, this is NOT something I'm interested in getting involved with. My only experience gambling is penny slots at the Ute Mountain Casino a few years ago! Plus I already have bad enough luck and barely any money! lol)