It's not possible to charge 1 sbd entry fee for the weekend tourney? It will no longer be a free roll, but at least the league will not shutdown. Any excess SBD's can be applied towards any week day events.
I'm surprised that none of the whales support projects like these. 50 SBD donation a week is not that much when their account has over 1M. They typically make >100 SBD in rewards per day...
Correct. It is not possible, because government.
Are you sure? There are two key features that make an action gambling.
This is why home games are legal. No rake. Which laws are you trying to follow?
Irrelevant, the key has always been decentralization. The government can't enforce anything that happens in a decentralized manner. You make a poker app where anyone can create a server. Now you have thousands of people running around hosting rogue home game servers. Completely unstoppable.
You don't have to take any risks, just find someone else who will. The only person under threat is the person running a server, and if they aren't charging a rake they can claim it's the same thing as playing a legal game at home.
I've wanted to do this for years (more like 15) but I'm pretty useless I suppose.
You're applying home game laws to online poker.
I know they shut down FTP and PS in CA and other states. Maybe an honor system where people donate SBD if they choose to play a tourney. (Rather than upvote content)