Two individuals have been ordered to pay more than £32,000 in legal costs and fines after they plead guilty to running illegal poker tournaments in a gambling den at a pool bar in London.
Nicholas Clark and Luke Flack ran unlicensed poker tournaments at the Pool Bar Private Members Club in Cambridge Road, London, which offered prizes of up to £50,000 six times a week. Kingston Crown Court heard that Clark and Flack ran the illegal tournaments for a year before police raided the venue in December 2014, which uncovered a member-only poker club.