Pair Fined 32,000 For Organising Illegal Poker Tournaments

Two individuals have been ordered to pay more than £32,000 in legal costs and fines after they plead guilty to running illegal poker tournaments in a gambling den at a pool bar in London.

Nicholas Clark and Luke Flack ran unlicensed poker tournaments at the Pool Bar Private Members Club in Cambridge Road, London, which offered prizes of up to £50,000 six times a week. Kingston Crown Court heard that Clark and Flack ran the illegal tournaments for a year before police raided the venue in December 2014, which uncovered a member-only poker club.

Both Clark and Flack plead guilty to running an unauthorized casino, contrary to Section 37 of the Gambling Act 2005, after facing charges of of concealing, disguising, converting, transferring or removing criminal property and entering into, using or controlling criminal property in relation to the illegal poker games.

Judge Judith Coello fined the pair …

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