PA Attorney Loses Poker Battle

A Pennsylvania attorney was trying to get a hand on more than $11k and just found out he will not be successful. Westmoreland County Attorney Larry Burns had money confiscated when a poker tournament was raided by police this past summer, an event that Burns had organized. Burns admits that he was running for-profit poker games, but insists that they were legal. The courts disagree. His argument that poker is a game of skill and not chance - and thus does not fall under the laws governing gambling - was not persuasive enough, and Burns will not be getting the money back.