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Fighting for Online Casino Skill

The question of poker as a game of skill versus a game of chance is a question that has haunted the game for years and continues to actually play an integral part in the expansion of the game. In several nation the governments have put out blanket bans of the foreign online casino gambling industry – and in Asia there is a general intolerance to any form of internet gambling. But the poker professionals and international organizations supporting the poker industry are fighting an uphill battle in attempting to get wide-spread classification of poker as a game of skill versus a game of chance. That small change in the definition and classification of the game would and could open poker up to several wider international markets. The US is currently one of the biggest battlegrounds for this debate – the organizations supporting legalized online casino gambling and poker are also pushing for the reclassification of poker even if internet gambling itself is not regulated and licensed in the US.

Congress has really delayed passing judgment on the online casino gambling industry, more specifically the UIGEA and new legislation introduced by Congressman Barney Frank. As this issue plays out in Congress and the online casinos are still banned in the US market, the individual US states are deciding the skill versus chance debate for themselves. California clearly feels as though the game of poker falls into the skill category seeing as the state plans to implement the game state-wide as a way to raise revenues.

But California has not yet actually ruled on the issue in the courts. Several US states have already addressed the issue in the courts and found online poker to be classified as a game of skill versus chance.