Quote Originally Posted by Circuits View Post
The other interesting tidbit about the palmer lake raid is that all charges were eventually dropped. Some folks copped a plea, early, but anyone who said "screw you" to the state and held out got null-prosecuted in the end.

A bar allowing legal gambling on its premises may lose its liquor license for violating community standards or some such crap, but no crime has occurred if the gamblers know each other socially, outside of the gambling activity.

When/if the house starts taking a cut, or using the (money) gambling as a draw, then it becomes illegal for the house.
Thats kinda how I saw it. My take on the whole palmer lake thing is the local PD did some shitty investigative work, and didnt do their research on the problem before involving another jursidiction to make the raid. They saw that the owner was possibly promoting it, or getting the word out that his buddies play poker there, and instead of waiting until the case built so they could prove disprove any reasonable doubt in court, they jumped the gun and made a bust before anybody really did anything wrong! Now if they had waited 6 weeks or 6 months, who knows? The owner may have been passing out flyers and buying new poker tables to have these events, then the PD would have built alot better case when it went to court once they can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was using the gambling to increase profits for his business.