A major hold'em poker tournament in quebec?

Sol says details of the planned Texas hold'em tournament are still sketchy.  He believes it would involve bars across quebec, that there would be no fee to join the tournament, that participants would play for points and would pick up any cash prizes at the end of the tournament, which he says could runfor up to a year.

Boxenbaum worries that such a tournament could plunge recovering problem-gamblers back into their bad old habits and perhaps even create new problem gamblers.Sol says it isn't entirely clear who is trying to organize the tournament but suspects it involves bar owners trying to get people back into their bars after seeing them leave in the wake of quebec's no-smoking legislation.

The gambling critic says the planning for the tournament appears to be in the early stages, with organizers still trying to determine if quebec law permits such an activity.