A couple of friends and I used to buy Bars/Taverns to redo, build up
the business and sell when bar pool was a big thing...we set them up as
gambling and league pool bars basically with a touch of high stakes Gin
games and video poker machines...
there was a liquor inspector
that used to go around looking for reasons to close people down and we
ran into him frequently lol...
he had a regular citizen in one of
our joints one night and she witnessed people exchanging money at the
pool table, so on her word alone(No video as it was 25-30 years ago) he
called in the police, our bar tender was arrested and he closed the
place down and confiscated all the cash in the till...
Long story short, as I remember it our attorney got it all dropped because in MO. pool is considered a game of skill and you can bet on it....you cannot bet on a game of chance, and cards/gin/poker is considered a game of chance,
if you even have a deck of cards out playing solitaire in a bar they
can bust you, and take the bars license.... later they went in all of our places and confiscated
all the video poker machines because they are perceived as a game of chance..(they
really did it because river boat gambling was legalized and they want
ALL the money, and have a lot of investor with political clout...LOL
when our manager asked why the detective laughed and said "tell the boss
he was operating a river boat without a river" lol.. )
The whole point of all this babbling is this being a "video" version of a golf game for cash rewards, it would seem to me it is illegal in all 50 states...so why do they single out certain states?