By JOHN WHITSON
Union Leader Staff
Sunday, Jul. 23, 2006
The idea that New Hampshire has restricted gambling to racetracks and lottery tickets, standing fast against a tidal wave of gaming, is quaint.
It’s also inaccurate.
There are legal poker games every day of the year all over the state, with thousands of dollars in prize money to be had.
“Of course there is gambling,” said Richard Bouley, a lobbyist who represents the gaming industry. “It’s just not on a large scale.”
The popularity growth of poker nationwide in recent years — particularly Texas Hold ’Em — triggered a change in state law that took effect Wednesday and transferred oversight authority from municipal police departments to the state Pari-Mutuel Commission."
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