The Little Kings and Queens charity poker room in Georgia was raided this week after its operations were deemed illegal by local police.
According to the Gwinnett County Police, they arrested Dennis Maxwell — the 51-year-old Flowery Branch resident who ran the joint — on June 17, 2022. Maxwell has been charged with Commercial Gambling and Keeping a Gambling Place. The first of these is a felony, the latter a misdemeanour.
The Gwinnett County Police also stated that "an investigation conducted by the Gwinnett Police Department learned that Little Kings and Queens was running an illegal gambling operation under a guise of a 501c3 charitable organization. As a result, over 30,000 dollars in illegal funds were seized, and the business is closed at this time."
Little Kings and Queens was a licensed charity operating completely in the open. The room's charitable partners include Mansfield Cares (a charitable poker tour), Atlanta Food Bank, P4 Childhood Cancer Foundation, Lucky For Lungs (a lung cancer charity), All in for a Cure, and the North Gwinnett Co-Op. The charity's sponsors included local hotels and a Buford painting company.
