The Delaware Poker Room located in Newark, Delaware and owned and operated by Brandon Boglio. The Delaware Poker Room offers a variety of games, Texas Hold'em (limit) Omaha Poker, 7 card Stud, and even Black Jack. Since the Delaware Poker Room is not a casino they don’t count with alcoholic beverages service, however, you have to be 18 to play. They also have No Limit competitions nightly usually $60.00+$10.00(most common referred to as SNGs but for legal purposes competitions works for me) Larger tournaments are held on Sundays with higher buy ins. The poker room does take in a service fee, if you will, however the funds go to charity and maintaining operations. The poker room features several tables and flat screen televisions and you can purchase sodas on the premises. At any given time there are tables ready to go, they are player/dealer tables (each player deals the game in turn) I personally like the poker room and feel its well run and a nice environment, I think everyone who is looking for a closer place to have a few hands of poker and you live in the area should definitely check them out.

Just recently a home game, more like a home casino was busted in Delaware for running a high stakes game out of a basement in a $400k housing development. The police kept the place under surveillance after neighbors were complaining about parking issues with several cars blocking the neighborhood very late into the night. Not your ordinary home game, reports claim that they used dealers, sometimes had topless waitresses and stakes were sometimes hands of $20k to $30k. The report also indicated a credit card machine was seized at the location. Everyone was arrested during a raid of the home including a live in bouncer. This game is many steps ahead of my $20.00 buy in game.

In finishing Poker is legal in Delaware if you’re doing right and obeying the laws which govern the games. I like having a legal poker room with in a short driving distance and if you live in the area its worth checking out. If you are not try the local VFW or Moose lodge because sometimes there’s a good poker game where you would least expect it.