[Samuel Thomas]

Tom and I had been thinking of having a charity poker event here locally for a while, until we found the laws governing the game here in MD.

Here is an article which gives a general outline.

http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=9671

You should be able to find specific laws easily on google.

Samuel

[Brent]

That article is depressing. I've been in Baltimore just over two years now. It's crazy to hear about all these big public tournaments that were happening in 2004, etc...

[MeridianFC]

I was doing some research here at work a few months ago and I found lots of ads for the old firehouse poker games in Maryland before the shut them down (mid/late 90s). I know they had a hell of time with slots at the tracks but MD should look into licensing and taxing games and get on with it.

[Blindbob]

Well i'm not sure of the exact law. but it reads to me as long as you arn't a liscenced liquor establishment a 'dry' charity game would be fine. So rent a church and make it BYOB

[Bratwurst]

I'm in Germantown, and I'm looking to move back to NO VA soon. I'm hoping to get back within a couple years.

Maryland is such a big gov't single party control state that I don't think any of this is going to change any time soon. I'm not going to get long winded on political discussion but my thoughts are basically that when Ehrlich got voted out and we returned to basically single party rule like it has been for decades in this state we aren't going to get any change. Just more social welfare programs and gov't oversight into what we can and can't do.

The Washington Post had it right when they endorsed Ehrlich. It wasn't for the fact that he was Republican, or for any inparticular stance on a single issue, it was because we had what this state really needed - different viewpoints in big office, which would have fostered debate on the changes this state needs.