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08-06-2008, 01:22 AM Post subject: "league" idea for missouri..

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i live in STL, MO. it is illegal to play poker outside a casino...for money. who isnt in that situation? duh.

but, anyway, i am trying to think of a way to get a biggish league started that may someday put someone in the WSOP, or give away a substantial prize, and donate a decent sum of money to a charity along the way. i thought i'd start putting my "idea" on paper/internet (LOL) to open it up to multiple opinions. hopefully, someone out there is more of an expert on the law and can tell me if i am headed in the right direction.

i received an email from a friend about a "no BI tourney," but asking for a "voluntary donation to charity." the tourney mentions nothing of prizes, so i assume they get around the BI/donation that way. and, it got me thinking...

my idea would be to start a "no buy-in" league. ask for an optional donation to a charity, but also allow players to play without giving anything. hopefully, get some sponsors to give small "door prizes" for the individual tourney. but, for those players that give a donation, allow eligibility to accumulate points for the league standings. so, those that do not give to charity still have something, like a gift card, to compete for. and, those that want to play month after month, for the points, donate to the charity.

the hangup is how to reward the league champion? we could give prizes with no monetary value...like trophies, gift cards, etc, but even the gift cards are dicey, legally, i assume.

how would i build the incentive to play in the league without crossing some sort of line involving the law? (i suppose i could just pay the police off...lol)

i dont think it would be too hard to get a bar to sponsor a couple of small prizes for the tourney winners because they make it back in the amounts of food/alcohol consumed during the tourney.

golf tourneys can always take from the "donation" pool and create prizes that dont exceed a predetermined monetary figure. but, i dont think poker tourneys can do the same thing.

any help would be appreciated.

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08-07-2008, 07:32 AM

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Local bars here in the Kansas City, KS, area have this stuff going on all the time. The tournaments are "free" but in some of them you can win some crazy-awesome shit.

I know of some other bars that have "buy-in" tournaments where the bar gets some of the "rake" (but not much because they're also making money selling beer), and prize money is dealt out. This is illegal I'm sure, but it's only found in small bars around here and the people that go to these bars don't care.

As for what you're asking, I'm not sure....We've thought about the same thing at our home game, having everyone throw down $10 every time they play and keep track of who wins......and at the end of it we'll send somebody to the WSOP with all of that money. I think that's your best bet, but shit if you can get bars involved more power to you.

Chopper

08-07-2008, 02:19 PM

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here's the thing, G.

i am trying to get some companies involved with the promotion of this league. i have an autistic son, so i want some money to go the a related charity. but, the company i know is owned by both a sportstalk radio host and Jim Edmonds. with their pull in both the businessplace and celebrity markets, i think we can really do something big.

but, no one wants to mess with the legality until it can be proven that we wont get the gov't all up our asses. no one, myself included, want to lose a business over this.

and, i'm sure KC has had the same thing where those "bars" that play and take a little rake have been busted. here in STL, we've had it happen and i know its happened in Illinois more often (degens...lol).

we have to make sure its completely legit. any other idea as to where i would start looking?

thanks for the input. i hoped you would see this one, as i know you are a MO-ish guy.

oh, and btw, who sux harder this year? prolly my Rams, huh?

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