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Small Poker Victories

The internet poker gambling industry in the United States, led by the Poker Players Alliance, has announced another small victory in the battle to legalize internet poker in the country at a federal level. The US government passed the UIGEA three years ago now and since that time the internet gambling industry was lumped in with games of chance and banned from the United States. Once the UIGEA came into full effect the PPA began to launch a strong initiative in the US for the legalization of online casino poker in particular. The cause has more than one million supporters and yet the US government continues to ban internet poker within the country as a part of the federal-level ban on games of chance.

The PPA has just announced that a South Carolina court has just furthered the group’s cause with a ruling that online casino poker gambling is a game of skill, not chance. That is the key issue that is keeping the internet poker industry from passing into legal status in the US. The federal government considered poker a game of primarily chance over skill when it drafted the UIGEA (although it was certainly not that specific) and internet poker has been gradually fading out of the US online gaming market from that time forward.

The South Carolina court ruling has some great implications for both the land and online casino poker gambling industries. Land poker in the state is now legal and gamblers do not have to play within defined poker establishments. And while the US government still bans poker at the federal level, South Carolina’s ruling will help the PPA in educating politicians that the game is not considered a game of chance.