Sept. 1998: Oliver v County of Los Angeles
“[Newjack] is not one of the games specifically mentioned in section 330. The
question of its legality or illegality thus depends upon whether it qualifies as either a
banking or a percentage game. This is an issue of law. [Citations.]” (Sullivan v. Fox) In the instant case, we expand this
analysis and we now hold that a game will be determined to be a banking game if under
the rules of that game, it is possible that the house, another entity, a player, or an observer
can maintain a bank or operate as a bank during the play of the game. In Huntington
Park, the trial court observed that the position of player-dealer in pai gow “continually
and systematically rotates among each of the participants.” (Id. at p. 245.)
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