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There has been a push for legalized gambling in Texas for many years. Yet it's never come close. That's not to say it can't change eventually, but in the past it hasn't been close.

The state of Texas HAS NOT passed a law allowing poker rooms. The existing state law says "A person commits an offense if he knowingly uses or permits another to use as a gambling place any real estate, building, room, tent, vehicle, boat, or other property whatsoever owned by him or under his control, or rents or lets any such property with a view or expectation that it be so used."

The TCH you mention has had a rough go of it, to find a way to operate. They were shut down at one point in 2022. They don't seem to actually be in accord with that state law against gambling, and their workaround under which they eventually were allowed to operate still leaves lots of question marks as to whether they are legal. The way the decision to allow them to reopen came down was incredibly puzzling as to how it was argued and decided - were people paid off? I don't assume they are safe from being shut down in the future, because they still don't align with the law.

And the casino model is exponentially far beyond that, in the scale and type of gambling.

In that context, I'm not as willing to assume that legalized gambling is on the near horizon in Texas. Casinos would require a huge leap in a different direction from how things are.

Im not trying to be rude or confrontational...

But your post seems like a lot wordsmithing trying to suggest a Poker House exists but isnt legal but has 4 armed guards, guys with visible guns, protecting the place.   To say that this establishment(not the only one, I have delivered to one in Plano a few times also) isnt obviously been given the blessing of local law enforcement is reaching.   You can dance around it with words...but the place is allowed to exist BY LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE LAW SAYS.   You are submitting that governments are shady and lie.  I agree.   Im saying this place is being allowed to exist by law enforcers...which basically means its legal...regardless of what actual law says or case law or anything else.  This establishment is not some underground speak easy...its well known and there are billboards advertising it along I-35.   

I asked a security guard if there was some weird rule they are exploiting like players using cash to win tickets that are then taken somewhere else and cashed in for money....they said no...its like a normal casino...nothing weird going on to exploit rules.

To suggest this place isnt legal or blessed by the police is dancing and wordsmithing just to dance and wordsmith.

I would reassert that my explanation of the City of Dallas experimenting with gambling is more plausible.

I dont want to argue semantics about THE LAW vs LAW ENFORCERS.