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Defendant Lawrence Dicristina is charged with operating an illegal gambling business involving poker games in violation of the Illegal Gambling Business Act (IGBA), 18 U.S.C. § 1955, and conspiring to do so. SeeSecond Superseding Indictment, Doc. Entry 25, Dec. 9, 2011. The type of poker alleged and proved to have been played in defendant’s establishment was “Texas Hold’em,” a game described in Part II(B)(1), infra. When reference is made to “poker” in this memorandum, this is the variant of pokerreferred to.