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The Never Ending Debate

From the United States, to Denmark, to the UK, the debate over whether poker is a game of chance or skill continues. Those who play poker, whether live or at the online casinos assert that the game is largely skill based with only an element of chance. But courts and governments all over the world are increasingly ruling that poker is predominantly chance with only an element of skill. The UK courts just last week came to the conclusion that poker is a game of chance – and that’s a major blow to the Gutshot Poker Club. Gutshot brought the case before the courts years ago, and lost, and the current ruling by the British appeals court could be the final verdict on the issue for the time being.

Gutshot is a privately owned UK group that ran an land-based poker gambling facility without a gambling license under the reasoning that games of skill did not require licensing. The club was shut down by authorities and Gutshot took the case to the courts. Unfortunately for Gutshot, the majority of nations are concluding that the chance element of poker (whether on land or at an online casino gambling site) is more prevalent than skill. The U.S. Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the issue, but state Supreme Courts in the U.S. have also found that poker is largely a game of chance.

With the online casinos gambling industry growing so rapidly all over the world, the ruling that online poker is a game of skill could drastically alter the way that internet poker is licensed. For the time being though, land and online poker operators can rest assured that in almost every country in the world with gambling regulations in place, poker is a pastime that must be licensed through the nation’s Gambling Commission.