Poker Game At Senior Center Forced To Shut DownGame Featured 10 Cent Chips, But Officials Say It's Illegal |
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A senior center outside Vancouver, BC, Canada has shut down a low-stakes Texas hold’em poker game because it violates the province’s gambling regulations.
The game used 10-cent chips.
Cbc.ca reported that a group of about 40 poker-playing seniors at the Minoru Place Seniors’ Centre had been playing regularly for a decade before management recently told them they had to stop.
One player in the game remarked that the regulations make them feel like they “might as well just stay home and play solitaire.”
There’s reportedly little they can do about the situation, besides moving the game to someone’s home, unless the rules are changed.
This definitely isn’t the first case of a senior center card game falling into the crosshairs of government officials.
In 2014 in the state of Washington, a penny-ante card game was forced to end thanks to a city ordinance. A $20 poker game in Idaho suffered a similar fate in 2010, though state lawmakers there passed a new law to fix the absurd situation.
A senior center in Michigan put a stop to $5 poker tournaments in 2010 as well.
Two years ago, Indiana officials issued a warning to a senior center card game that awarded prizes like toilet paper. The controversy became so big that Vice President Mike Pence, who was governor at the time, said that “common sense” wasn’t being used.
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