Grand Rapids, MI: A woman pleaded not guilty to leaving her three children (ages 5, 10, and 13) in a car while she played poker for several hours. The kids were found at 1 am by a passerby. Game: Texas Hold’em.
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You can now charge a $5 entry fee to a cribbage game in Augusta, Maine. The previous entry fee cap was $1.
The new law is called “An Act to Amend Games of Cards”, and was introduced after a cribbage game at the American Legion was busted.
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Several states have been in the news lately for cracking down on low stakes poker games held in private houses and social clubs. Laws in some states are so vague as to make any card games or board games like Monopoly potentially illegal (in some extreme cases, even when not played for money). As a [...]
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Rothay Manor offers specialized “gaming getaway weekends” at its resort, including weekends geared to Chess, Bridge, and Scrabble.
Along with scheduled game times and equipment, they offer lectures, tutorials, courses, and competitions, as well as the usual resort amenities.
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The Kentucky Kernel, a student-run publication at the University of Kentucky, recently ran a story on the games club. Sure it had the expected references to Mountain Dew, Cheetos, and “stereotypical gamer physique,” but it was also among the nicest social assessments of dedicated gamers that I’ve seen in a general publication. The article quoted [...]
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Lost Cities, a popular two-player card game among Eurogamer cognoscenti, heads to the XBox today.
Given the popularity of Settlers and Carcassonne, it’s likely to be another big hit. Which leaves you to wonder:
People go on the XBox are finally being turned on to great Eurogames, and they’re playing them socially, too. Isn’t it time they [...]
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icWales reports on the growing popularity of poker, instead of Bingo and previous trivial pursuits, among middle age and older women in Wales. It’s apparently becoming popular in the old nursing homes.
One player is quoted as saying that women have a natural advantage in the game when playing against men because men never really know [...]
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Palatka, FL: Man discovers three others killed at an all-night poker game. This is the second card game shooting incidence in Putnam County in the last month. (source)
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On slow news days, the mass media sometimes trots out articles pimping old board or card games. Here are some for Strat-o-Matic baseball and Canasta.
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Gainesville, FL: Man arrested after pulling gun on friend who he accused of cheating during a card game (doesn’t say which game). (source)
Stuttgart, AR: Three charged for three-card monte scamming (not just for performing three-card monte, but for setting up marks, running away with the money, etc) (source)
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