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Kiwi's On Poker Side

The New Zealand courts have now weighed in on the debate about poker – skill versus chance and the Kiwi courts say that it’s a matter of skill. The severe restrictions all over the world concerning online casinos have instigated a huge push from land and internet poker players toward distinction. Poker players have now made huge strides in the debate and yet there are still countries that rule that poker is more chance than skill and therefore subject to the same restrictions as the online casino industry. In addition to meaning that the internet poker sites are then banned in countries with internet gambling blocks, individual poker players have been arrested in various countries and use the skill debate as a reason for holding private poker games.

Presiding Judge David J. Henry handled the most recent case with the poker issue at the forefront and he fully cleared both land and internet poker from the gambling regulations in the country. New Zealand is one of the countries with limitations on online casino gambling practices and this has caused a lot of strong debate in the marketplace regarding how poker plays a role in the Kiwi gambling scene. This is essentially one of the most hotly debated topics in the industry and something that poker fans feel passionately about asserting – that poker in any form is far different from the land and online casinos.

The fact that New Zealand has gone this route with the policies bodes well for other Western nations because it sets a level of precedence for expected outcomes when poker versus the online casinos goes to the courts in Europe and the US.