I don’t believe there is if it doesn’t exist in Nevada. For some reason, that type of gambling is the biggest taboo here.
There are casinos in Central City, Blackhawk and Cripple Creek. Tey were originally intended to revitalize the mountain towns, and preserve their historic business districts. Unfortuantely, the towns just turned into gambling destinations, and there’s little else there. casibns flourished in Central City when gambling was first legalized, but most were driven out by Blackhawk’s more convenient location to Denver.
Generally correct, although some locales (Texas for one, ironically considering the popularity of Texas hold’em) have issued opinions that any card game for money is illegal regardless of whether the house takes a rake or not. I’m at work and can’t access the Card Player magazine site but if you go to cardplayer <dot> com and check out Phil Hellmuth’s articles he has a couple from last year talking about how charity events he planned to host in Texas were cancelled because the attorney general decided they were illegal. New York City has also cracked down in recent years on illegal card rooms (which is where players like Howard Lederer learned their chops) and there are sporadic reports from one columnist in particular (I wanna say Roy Cooke but I’m not sure) reporting on police raids on nursing homes playing penny-ante poker in the day room.
In Michigan a home game is illegal. It will generally be ignored unless it gets too big.
We have fund raising for churches which involve roulette craps blackjack and poker… One of the church fund raiser got way big and the authorities cracked down. It was at the church but the games got real expensive. All it takes is a citizen complaint.
Are office sports pools a vanishing species? It seems to me that most companies didn’t use to specifically ban them, but the one that I was working for around 1995 did ban them, and that was after years of having a pool every week during football season. I haven’t seen anyone running any kind of office sports pool since, at either of the two companies I’ve been at subsequently.
Montana has “casinos”, but they’re mostly just dinky storefronts full of coin-op machines and bars with a machine or two. The only game seems to be coin-ops of various sorts, but I don’t know how much of that is due to legislation and how much is economics.
And regardless of legality, you can find small-stakes gambling among friends absolutely anywhere in the country, in the form of card games and sports bets. Some of these are illegal, but as long as the dollar values stay low, nobody cares.
Minor nitpick:
There is one city in Nevada that does not permit gambling.
Boulder City, originally founded to house the Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) workers.
Can anyone explain/clarify/provide the Straight Dope on this quote, which I found here: