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Cd'A Casino announces poker plans

by Taryn Thompson Hagadone News Network
| March 29, 2014 7:00 AM

COEUR d’ALENE — The Idaho Constitution outlaws poker, but the Coeur d’Alene Tribe is going all in.

“Poker is basically played all around the state every night in people’s homes, at family reunions, at nursing homes and in family rooms,” said Helo Hancock, the tribe’s legislative director. “It goes on every day.”

And, Hancock said, the state is doing little to stop it.

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