Bill Legalizing Bar Poker in Wyoming Advances
Heads to Senate Later This Year
<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1
LACE w:st="on">Wyoming</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> poker fans are one step closer to being allowed to play social poker in bars and restaurants.
A bill that would allow the game to be played in bars and restaurants won approval by the state’s House Travel Committee and will soon face members of the House for consideration. It already made it through the state Senate.
The bill was introduced by politicians to further clarify the state’s gambling laws. In 2004, the state’s Attorney General warned that public poker was illegal the way current laws were worded. The bill was introduced to further clarify what kind of card games can be played in bars so that both the bar owners and the state’s law enforcement officials know where poker stands
Heads to Senate Later This Year
<?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 /><ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1
LACE w:st="on">Wyoming</ST1LACE></ST1:STATE> poker fans are one step closer to being allowed to play social poker in bars and restaurants. A bill that would allow the game to be played in bars and restaurants won approval by the state’s House Travel Committee and will soon face members of the House for consideration. It already made it through the state Senate.
The bill was introduced by politicians to further clarify the state’s gambling laws. In 2004, the state’s Attorney General warned that public poker was illegal the way current laws were worded. The bill was introduced to further clarify what kind of card games can be played in bars so that both the bar owners and the state’s law enforcement officials know where poker stands
