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No bluff: Police break up senior center poker game

by Associated Press

KTVB.COM

Posted on February 27, 2010 at 5:24 PM

Updated Sunday, Feb 28 at 1:54 PM

 

TWIN FALLS -- The odds were stacked against retirees at the Twin Falls Senior Center earlier this month when police arrived to break up a long-running poker game after receiving an anonymous tip.

About 20 seniors had played at the center for more than five years but police say nothing in Idaho law permits gambling at any age.

Residents told The Times-News they paid in $20 to play and the pot was split among the top chip holders.

Seventy-three-year-old Ora Deahl says she thought it was legal because the players donated up to $500 to the senior center each month.

Eighty-year-old Doris Williams says they've been playing the legal way without money since the police visit but it isn't as much fun.

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