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The charity poker situation in the state of Michigan apparently hasn’t improved despite months and months of discussions on how to regulate the industry more. Not that the industry necessarily needs more regulation.
Basically, the state wants to make charities do more of the work running poker games, instead of relying on partnerships (usually 50-50) with other groups, known as suppliers. Charities say that they need to have partnerships in order to make the games work, since charities don’t have the resources or expertise to run poker.
It appears the state and charities wishing to offer poker are at a huge impasse, according to the Lansing State Journal. It seems to be contradictory since the state is asking for charities to take a bigger cut from their poker revenues, but charities claim that such strict rules would literally strangle their revenue stream and wipe out a vital industry in the state.
Supporters of charity poker have alleged that Michigan is just being creative—in a bad way—in its favoritism of the Las Vegas-style casinos in the state. It’s a classic case of some claiming the government is favoring big businesses over small businesses.
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Here are recent comments made by Rick Kalm, the executive director of the Michigan Gaming Control Board, who has been tasked with sorting out the situation:
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I’m not here to run anybody out of business. In fact, I’m here trying to expand the opportunities for other businesses, bars, locations, bowling alleys. We think we should be allowing this to happen wherever the charities want it to happen, not where poker rooms have dictated it happen. But, if you want to engage in this kind of gaming and you’re a charity, you’ve got to understand this type of gaming comes with much more risk than the others. I’m just not going to tolerate illegal behavior. And I’m not going to tolerate people using the charities for subversive means to pad their own pockets. If you don’t understand gaming and if you’re afraid of it and you’re going to lean on this operator (supplier) to do everything for you, then you shouldn’t be doing it. Sell a raffle ticket.
A new lawsuit between the charity groups and the state will be heard this week.
Twenty five plaintiffs are suing the Gaming Control Board in order to try to prevent the enforcement of “emergency rules” that were enacted this summer.
Poker in Michigan
Live Poker Rooms in Michigan
- 5 Star Charity Poker Room (Sterling Heights, MI)
- Auburn Poker Room (Shelby, MI)
- Bay Mills Resort & Casino (Brimley, MI)
- Burton Eagles Poker Room (Burton, MI)
- Ciccarelli's Sports Bar (Utica, MI)
- FireKeepers Casino (Battle Creek, MI)
- Greektown Casino (Detroit, MI)
- Gun Lake Casino (Wayland, MI)
- Huron Poker Room (Oscoda, MI)
- Island Casino (Harris, MI)
- Joey Armadillo's (Niles, MI)
- Kewadin Casino Sault Ste. Marie (Sault Sainte Marie, MI)
- Krazy Kopz at Vision Lanes (Westland, MI)
- Langan's All Star Poker Room (Walled Lake, MI)
- Legends Poker Place of Metamora (Metamora, MI)
- Live Action Poker Room at Boomers (Allen Park, MI)
- MGM Grand Detroit (Detroit, MI)
- Momo's Poker Room (Taylor, MI)
- Motor City Casino (Detroit, MI)
- Odawa Casino (Petoskey, MI)
- Ojibwa Casino Baraga (Baraga, MI)
- Ojibwa Casino Marquette (Marquette, MI)
- One Eyed Jacks Poker Lounge (Utica, MI)
- Owosso Poker Room (Owosso, MI)
- Players Golf & Event Center (Livonia, MI)
- Players Golf South (Livonia, MI)
- Prime Time Poker at 59 West (Highland, MI)
- Rosemack Poker Room (Roseville, MI)
- Rounders Poker Room Saginaw (Saginaw, MI)
- Roundtree Poker Room (Ypsilanti, MI)
- Shark Club Waterford (Waterford, MI)
- Soaring Eagle Casino (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
- The Event Spot II Poker Room (Lansing, MI)
- The Event Spot Poker Room (Lansing, MI)
- Thompson Poker Room (Ypsilanti, MI)
- Waterford Card Room at 300 Bowl (Waterford, MI)
- Wayne Bowl Charity Poker (Wayne, MI)
- Winning Hand Poker (Trenton, MI)
- Wintergarden Poker Room Chesterfield (New Baltimore, MI)
Michigan Poker Information
Michigan residents are blessed with the availability of more than 15 poker rooms. The state’s poker action can be roughly summarized as being divided into three concentrations, with pockets of play in the Upper Peninsula, Lower Peninsula, and city of Detroit. These excellent rooms are bolstered by the support of the HPT, which often brings high-stakes poker tournaments to the Soaring Eagle Casino in Mount Pleasant. Michigan’s poker rooms are clearly dynamic in their efforts to attract other poker tours, as many venues spread rare poker variants that are hard to find outside of Las Vegas and home games. Have you been looking everywhere for a crazy pineapple game? Badugi? Badacey? Badeucy? Try Michigan!
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