7-Jun-06. House always wins. Medicine Hat News, A1.

A man pleaded guilty to operating an illegal gambling house in Medicine Hat Provincial court on Tuesday. Daryl Giesbrecht was ordered to pay a fine of $6,100 for not having a licence for the Medicine Hat Poker League that he and some friends established two years ago to have a place to play Texas Hold’em. Special Crown prosecutor Vaughan Hartigan said although the League wasn’t put in place to make money, it broke the Alberta Gaming laws because the league wasn’t registered with the department.