Wyoming lawmakers are grasping how to prosecute gambling houses and dealers operating under the regulatory table without , as one lobbyist put it, making “grandma and her friends felons or crooks for playing Texas hold 'em at coffee every morning.”

It’s a difficult balance.

The Laramie County District Attorney’s Office recently declined to pursue a case of alleged professional gambling in which there was a question of whether those involved had a “bona fide social relationship,” or an exception to the crime of gambling designed to let friends still bet on games together.

The Natrona County District Attorney’s Office gave a favorable settlement to a man who challenged the state’s gambling laws as unconstitutionally vague, while pointing to that same exception among others.

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