Wyoming poker industry and the people who play it were given a freeroll recently when the Senate Travel Committee, by unanimous endorsement, passed a bill that allows social poker games to come back to the pubs and bars of the state. "Social gambling" is what Sen. Mike Massie, D-Albany called it when people play poker at a bar and buy drinks there at the same time, and the state has decided that social gambling is just fine. This is a change form a 2004 move by Attorney General Pat Crank who declared that poker games in bars were against state gambling law.


