Austrian police reportedly found 11 people playing poker illegally in an apartment in Hall on Saturday evening. A 27-year-old local man had organised seven such gambling gatherings, and authorities filed a penalty application under the Gambling Act.
The reported case signals enforcement against private, unauthorised gambling gatherings in Austria.
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Switzerland's Federal Gaming Board directed a search at a venue in the canton of Zurich where an unauthorised poker game was suspected, with cantonal police assisting. Officers identified 12 participants and seized poker equipment and more than CHF2,000; three people were identified as suspected organisers. They will be reported to the commission along with the venue's operators and owners.
Police in Palermo investigated two people after administrative checks at betting shops in the Falsomiele district found suspected unauthorised betting collection, according to the police headquarters. The two were investigated while at liberty and also face an allegation of occupying public land unlawfully.
South Korean police referred 118 people to prosecutors in an investigation into two alleged illegal gambling networks, the report said. Police attributed more than 123bn won in betting transactions to the two cases: one network allegedly operated from Vietnam and the other ran online betting and casino platforms between November 2022 and July 2025.
Italian police discovered an alleged clandestine poker game in a bar in Turin’s Borgo Vittoria district on 7 February, according to the report. Officers seized the premises and gaming equipment, and reported the alleged organiser and the bar owner’s husband; the investigation remains preliminary and the suspects are presumed innocent until a final judgment.
Tourist Police Division 5 arrested 10 foreigners in Koh Phangan, Thailand, on suspicion of participating in an illegal poker game, according to the report. Police reportedly found THB134,000 at the house where the group had gathered. Separately, a Singapore court sentenced Lin Mei to 10 months in prison and Wu Zhibing to eight months after they pleaded guilty in a case involving the detention of a woman over gambling debt.