http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pd ... -guide.pdf
http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/pd ... 202008.pdf
make it really restrictive.
You can gamble 100's in the bookies on these roulette machines - money laundering is rife - but it's £5 per game £100 max prize for Poker.
I want to set up a private game - friends only - where we meet up maybe once a week/fortnight for a few beers and play a small stake cash game.
I like the idea of cash as there's no clock, blind increases, chip-ups, fixed max finish due to closing time etc and people aren't knocked out early. I also find cash, as it's simpler, a more social game and (as it's friends) a game where you can mess about a bit more, muff people and generally have more fun. (My current pub tournies get a bit serious sometimes and with the way the blinds go there's not a huge amount of play in them).
But let's say I have 7/8 people (would always be <=8) how the heck can you have a game with a £5 max buy-in? - that's a pint and a bag of crisps! I don't envisage any more than £20 max (on a bad night) for any individual - and it would be unlikely that anyone walks away with more than £100 on a night.
Of course we could, as it's private, just keep it to ourselves and settle up elsewhere but I need the pub to be ok with it all and for that to happen it's got to be completely above board.
http://www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Lega ... l-pitfalls
is a good summary I think - but it's coming from the angle of the pub hosting a game - rather than 7 friends turning up a deciding to play poker rather than jenga. I could have a drink with you and have a few games of backgammon @£10/point - or maybe not
What do?
