Former South Carolina coroner Gary Miller Watts is suing Irmo police and the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division over his 2024 arrest at a poker game raid. Watts argues the state law does not prohibit poker in a rented office suite; the charges against him were dismissed, and he is seeking unspecified damages.
The case challenges how South Carolina’s poker law applies to games held in rented private spaces.
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Reportedly, Financial police raided a private flat hosting an illegal poker game in Vienna. A poker player who had been cheated contacted police before authorities uncovered the game.
Police and financial police carried out a joint raid on a private flat in Vienna-Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus in early October over illegal gambling, according to a report. The operation followed a complaint from a poker player who reported fraud. Police were already at the scene when the financial police of the Office for Combating Fraud arrived, and an standby unit was also called in.
Chalong Police Station officers arrested nine foreign nationals during a raid on a villa in Phuket on 12 February, police said. Officers said the group was suspected of organising illegal gambling; police seized cash, gaming equipment and digital devices. The suspects were charged under the Gambling Act.
Colombia's Coljuegos and the Fiscalía General de la Nación carried out an operation against an allegedly illegal poker tournament in Barranquilla, the regulator said. Officials removed 1,869 items used in poker betting, including chips, cards, tables and invoices. Coljuegos president Marco Emilio Hincapié said poker is a game of chance under Law 643 of 2001 and requires authorisation.
Switzerland’s Federal Gaming Board and cantonal police interrupted an unauthorised poker event in Glattbrugg on 16 April 2026, according to a media report. Authorities found about 60 people at the venue and seized around CHF55,000, €6,500 and gaming equipment; the board opened criminal proceedings against a person suspected of organising the event.
Swedish authorities raided the unlicensed Krukan poker club in Stockholm during a tournament reportedly attended by nearly 100 players. The Swedish Poker Association said it had received accounts alleging force against attendees, but said it could not independently verify all the claims; authorities described the operation as controlled.