Buckhorn owner Mike Hopkins said police did not show up Thursday although they had threatened to do so when they shut down a tournament Wednesday night at the Cowboy, which Hopkins also owns.
''They never came down,'' he said.
Hopkins said he called police Friday to ask what was going on and an officer replied that they now intend to wait until obtaining a legal ruling on whether state law prohibits bars from hosting Texas Holdem poker tournaments.
Such tournaments have sprung up across the state in recent years, and several establishments in Laramie, Casper and Cheyenne, among other cities, host poker nights on a regular basis.
Acting Laramie Police Chief Jim Kyritsis did not return repeated phone calls from the Casper Star-Tribune for a second consecutive day.
Laramie Vice Mayor Jodi Guerin said she had not heard about the poker issue as of Friday afternoon, and neither police nor the public have brought it to the council's attention.
Cheyenne Police Lt. Don Simmer said his agency is aware of several poker tournaments in the capital city, but police don't plan to break them up unless either the district attorney or state attorney general's office rules that the tournaments violate the law.
''We've had several questions about the legality of it,'' he said. ''We are waiting for an opinion of the attorney general to say yea or nay.''
Deputy Chief Attorney General Liz Gagen said she did not know of any existing attorney general opinions on the issue.
''We don't have any formal requests for such an opinion, and the person who is kind of the gambling expert isn't here today,'' she said Friday.