In a small town in Florida, the residents are attempting to open a poker room in the Orange Park Kennel Club, despite stiff resistance from the town hall as well as residents.  In a strange and backward story, after the town council favored the concept of adding a poker room to the kennel club, the Clay County Commissioner simply expressed a complete lack of interest, despite obvious benefits such as increased jobs and income in the community.  But poker rooms have initially been difficult to establish due to overwhelming resistance from citizens as well as local city governments.  But despite this resistance, local residents are convinced that they can somehow manage to push through legislation that will allow the opening of a professional level poker room in the Orange Park area located in the kennel club, where gambling already takes place in the form of betting on the dog track.  While dog track betting is legal and has been for many years, any other type of gambling is illegal other than the Florida lottery and church regulated bingo matches.  This emphasis on bringing new revenue streams and entertainment to the Orange Park area has not gone over well with many residents and city council leaders.  Fighting against the proposition to open a poker playing room are those who have had bad experiences with gambling and other types of games of chance in the past.  While poker is technically a game of skill, the difference between this type of gambling and the ridiculous odds present in games such as roulette and blackjack tends to get glossed over by opponents of new gaming establishments.  It is easy to point at Las Vegas casinos and other types of gaming establishments where the odds are so ridiculously out of proportion in comparison with poker rooms and the ability to win at games such as Texas Hold’em as an indicator of what poker is supposed to represent.

This narrow minded view and extremely biased argument against poker rooms has led to all manner of trouble in the past with the establishment of legitimate poker rooms and other games of skill.  There is never an and to the amount of people who will come out in protest of new poker rooms and gaming establishments, despite they skill-based nature of the competition president and those who choose to participate.

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