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04-27-2006, 01:11 PM

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Re: Four arrested in Georgia poker bust

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Originally Posted by 4aces

[I must've missed something; what, besides the game having been held in a "former business building", makes this "commercial gambling"?]

The story doesn't specify Georgia's laws. I'd have to suspect that there was some form of rake to qualify this as commercial gambling. Make note of this as some states allow home games so long as there is no rake of any form.

-JC-