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A retired judge who operates poker rooms in southern Arizona in defiance of state investigators says his organization is opening a new card parlor in Phoenix later this month.

Texas Hold’em games operated by Harold Lee of Tombstone have been referred for criminal prosecution several times by agents of the Arizona Department of Gaming, but he has never been charged.

The Attorney General’s Office this week issued an e-mail statement saying it declined prosecution because there is “no reasonable likelihood of conviction.”

Lee also is planning a new poker club in Tucson. The expansion of his league and the attorney general’s opinion create questions about whether more private poker rooms could sprout up statewide.

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