Sentences with phrase «illegal poker game»

The most compelling characters are Frankie and Russell (Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn), whose heist of a high level illegal poker game sets the films action in motion, but the script doesn't let them spread their characters» wings enough.

The pretrial filing in Walsh's ongoing federal case stated that Spota stymied an investigation into whether Walsh neglected to show up for his job as a county correction lieutenant at the Suffolk County Jail and had been caught at an illegal poker game.

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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in legal documents filed in a Manhattan trial court that the games are illegal gambling, no different from poker or blackjack.

To circumvent the law (gambling is illegal in China) people were using play money poker sites to set up real money games using play money in exchange for fiat currency transactions away from the tables.

When the craze for poker kicked into high gear, a number of police departments responded by deploying SWAT teams to raid games in garages, basements and VFW halls where illegal gambling was suspected.

Weinstein noted the law used to convict DiCristina — the Illegal Gambling Business Act — listed games like roulette and slot machines but didn't explicitly mention poker.

Heeb's aim was to convince the judge that poker was predominantly a game of skill and didn't fall under the definition of illegal gambling.

Bloom was in the qualifying trials for freestyle skiing when she wiped out, a life - derailing accident that would send her down a very different path of hosting illegal high - stakes poker games, getting raided by the FBI, and writing a book about the whole affair.

In «Molly's Game,» writer - director Aaron Sorkin tells the true story of Molly Bloom, who for years ran an illegal poker ring for Hollywood celebrities.

Bloom ran an ongoing and illegal high - stakes poker game in Los Angeles and then New York in the first decade of the new millennium; she ultimately fell afoul of federal prosecutors, narrowly avoided jail, wrote a book, and here's the inevitable movie, not only scripted by Sorkin but directed by him in his behind - the - camera debut.

As described in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, back in January, a Pennsylvania county court dismissed charges against two individuals who ran a poker game out of a garage, finding that because the outcome of poker has more to do with skill than chance, it was not illegal under the state's gambling laws.