Litigation
Mar. 19, 2016
$1.6M private poker game debt enforced by court
A Los Angeles resident may use the courts to collect on a $1.6 million gambling debt from a private in-home poker game, a trial judge ruled.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Gambling debts incurred while playing card games in private residences may be collected through the courts, and can escape any precedent applicable to casinos and for-profit gambling establishments, a Los Angeles trial judge found in a ruling that will be challenged next week.
Plaintiff Hao Jiang participated in a series of poker games at friends' houses in the citie...
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