Lawyer: “Poker tournaments aren’t gambling” in PA case
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A lawyer who has been charged with operating illegal poker games is saying they aren’t illegal at all.
Larry Burns, 63, of Westmoreland County near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was charged last year with misdemeanors for running poker tournaments and earning a profit from them.
He wants gambling charges against him dismissed, saying poker is not actually gambling, in the latest court case that tries to distinguish poker from other types of wagering.
According to a story at majorwager.com:
“There are, however, a number of reported decisions of various courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that define the terms ‘gambling’ and ‘unlawful gambling’ in ways that do not proscribe such conduct and which specifically state that wagering on poker or playing poker for money or other prices is not ‘gambling’ or ‘unlawful gambling’ within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Burns’ defense attorney David Millstein wrote in a brief filed Thursday.
The motion to dismiss will likely be heard later this year.
