(Natalie Behring)Īcross Portland, a handful of the city's licensed poker clubs are following Ogai's focus on tournaments. He killed himself last year after losing a legal battle that put his club out of business.Īlthough Final Table, a poker club on Southeast 122nd Avenue shown here March 10, faces a city license suspension, players just want to play. Next month, Portland poker goes on trial at a city hearing, where Portland's two biggest clubs will for the first time formally address the conflict between what's allowed and what's actually happening.īut Ogai, the man who did more than anybody to popularize poker in this town, won't be there. "It makes no sense at all in the modern context of how poker really works," Sugerman says. But lobbyist Geoff Sugerman, who helped Ogai derail a 2013 bill that would have killed poker outright, says laws prohibiting willing participants from competing against each other in a game of skill are the problem.
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