Champions Social Club will soon welcome poker players after a lengthy legal battle with the City of Dallas over its right to operate in a former steakhouse.
The city had revoked a previously approved permit for the club to operate last year. A five-member Board of Adjustment Panel voted 4-1 to reverse that decision after the Texas Supreme Court declined to take up an appeals court ruling in a similar case at another poker room.
Texas Card House, another private poker club in the city, continued to operate throughout its legal fight, while Champions has been waiting to open for the first time. Champions also operates a club in Houston and TCH has six locations throughout the state.
The new location will join the already operating Champions Club in Houston (pictured).Poker club opposed by neighbors
Members of the community, both for and against the project, turned out Tuesday for a hearing on the matter that lasted more than seven hours before a vote was taken. The club had planned to open in 2021 in the former III Forks Steakhouse, but it faced opposition from a nearby subdivision and clashing intrepretations of poker's legality in Texas.
