Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

Comes Down to Professional

The Danish courts and government are not backing down with the request earlier this month that a professional poker player living in Denmark surrender all of the funds that he as won from the game of online poker over the past year. The Danish government has very controversial policies in place concerning the online casino gambling industry and there has been a lot of speculation about just where the legalities lie. Unlike many nations, Denmark has made internet gambling illegal at the gamer level rather than just asking the online casinos to stay out of the market. That means that Danish gamblers participating in the game could risk loosing their winnings under certain circumstances.

The case in question indicates that professionally playing online casino poker will not be tolerated by the Danish government. That seems to be the defining line for the government right now. The Danish players can gamble at the internet poker sites in moderation (at least until the government better blocks those sites) but Danish citizens are not allowed to make a living from internet poker. Once the gambler moves from casually playing the online casinos and internet poker sites into a full-time, make a living job, the government is probably going to come knocking on the player’s door looking for all of those winnings.

The recent case sees the Danish player owing the government a forfeiture of the $28,000 in online poker funds that he won over the past year. The Supreme Court of Denmark has also upheld this ruling – not entirely surprising considering the Danish government’s attempts to continually operate a state monopoly and block foreign casinos and gambling sites.