[OnTheButton]

Thanks so far for the information folks.

Glad to hear I am not alone, or being taken as greedy for not wanting to pay for everything every week, even though the cost is not an issue.

ElitePoker, you and I seem to have a very similar situation, where we "created our own monsters" by being generous and offering up our hospitality to our guests. Had we just been bastards from the onset, nothing would be expected now.

I was one of the ones that actually posted the CA gaming "legalese" put up here earlier in the thread by Wylecoyo, so I'm familiar with the exact law as stated. However "profit" is the argueable term in that code. To purchase food and beverages for distribution is an "expense" not a profit. Now if we charged directly (i.e. $1 for a soda, $3 for a beer) for those items, I could understand the complications.

But the intent of the law is to be interpreted, right?

The sound of a "league membership" with "dues" intrigues me.

Anyone have any more information on this as applied to poker groups?

There's GOT to be a way around this, since the intent is not to open a casino, but to not have to get nickled and dimed every weekend by fridge looting players.