Poker Nights Banned in Prince Edward Island

It is another sad event for the poker game as it meets resistance in the form of the Atlantic Lottery Corporation.

Poker, being a favorite card game as well as a game that has proven to be very lucrative, is being offered in bars across the Prince Edward Island, but the new policy provided by the Atlantic Lottery Corporation bans poker and its tournaments, particularly Texas Hold'Em, from being played in the bars.  The bars could either keep hosting poker tournaments and risk losing their VLT machines or ditch poker and keep their VLTs.  That was the only choice given to them, and it seems like the bars are going to choose the latter.

Not a Good Thing

Banning the bars in Prince Edward Island from hosting poker tournaments is not a good thing, and the owners of these bars express their disgust over the new policy.  But they admit that they really cannot do anything about. [Read][more...]