You just can’t win with poker these days. Even when you win in an illegal home game you may wind up losing. Numerous high profile actors, including Spiderman himself (Tobey Mac), are being sued by people who lost money in a Ponzi scheme to a man who, in turn, lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to the actors in California card games. Illegal card games that is. I don’t know Cali law that well, but I’m guessing you can’t sue to recover money you lost to someone who lost it later in a card game s/he couldn;t play in legally to begin with. The kicker though, is that the lawsuit likely will trigger an IRS investigation. And you thought the $10K reporting requirement in casinos was strict.
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