{"id":7039,"date":"2014-02-25T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-on-underground-poker\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:08:15","slug":"supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-on-underground-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/25\/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-appeal-on-underground-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court declines to hear appeal on underground poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS<br \/>\n\tWASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court will not disturb the criminal conviction of a New York man whose underground poker game ran afoul of a federal anti-gambling law.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe justices on Monday rejected an appeal from Lawrence DiCristina, who said his twice-a-week games of Texas Hold \u2018em should not be covered by the federal Illegal Gambling Businesses Act. DiCristina said the law targets games of chance, like lotteries, slot machines and dice, but not poker, which is a game of skill.<\/p>\n<p>\tBridge and Scrabble players weighed in on DiCristina\u2019s behalf, worrying they could be targeted under a federal appeals court\u2019s expansive interpretation of the law.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON \u2014 The Supreme Court will not disturb the criminal conviction of a New York man whose underground poker game ran afoul of a federal anti-gambling law. The justices on Monday rejected an appeal from Lawrence DiCristina,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}