That’s a simple question with a somewhat complicated answer. Playing poker for money is allowed as long as it is done in one of the poker rooms inside one of the land based casinos in Indiana. It’s not okay to do online and it’s not legal to set up a home game with your friends either. This may come as a surprise to some as skill based games are in fact allowed in the Hoosier state. The laws of Indiana do, however, not consider poker as skill, but a game of chance which in most forms is illegal.