From what the Senator said, this bill would only legalize Poker rooms in Texas, not Gambling or Casino’s. The caller asked Senator Patrick if he would support such a Bill if it made it out of the House and the Senator said that he had only heard of the Bill, not seen or read it.

He commented that he liked to play Poker and felt like it was a “game of strategies”. I got the feeling from listening to the Senator that he would support a Bill on Legalized Poker if it was written to his liking.

HB 3186 would give a lot of the money back to the municipalities and to Charity. Anyone who knows me knows that I don’t care for Casino’s. However I would have no problem with Poker rooms if, and only if, a majority of the money actually went to Charities, not some Fat Cat County Commissioner to spend on his Ranch or other frivilous expenditures.

I’m also not sure that the Texas Lottery Commission is the right choice to watch over such an undertaking seeing how they want to outsource the Lottery every time you turn around.

I know it’s only a matter of time before some form of legalized Gambling is passed. Many of the Legislators haven’t thought about all the money they are missing out on (or figured out how to get it). You don’t think that they’re going to let all these illegal Gamerooms continue to operate forever are you? Trust me, they’ll figure out a way to get a piece of that action as well!