Overcome the ban - poker is a game of skill.

you need the remedial spelling class

On Oct 3 2006 12:11 PM, lysdexic wrote:

> Backgammon, Bridge, and Scrabble are also subject to chance but playing these
> tournaments online and for money is not being threatened by this bill.
>
> The rreason this bill threatens poker tournaments is because og the single
> clause about games of chance if tournament poker was not scene as a game of
> chance but a game of skill with even a large element of chance it would be
> exempted.
>
> The shear number of consistent winners and final table participants is a
> persuasive argument that it ultimately is more skill tan chance.
>
> Ring games may not be able to win an exception but there is sufficient
> precidence to get poker tournaments back online.
>
> On Oct 3 2006 9:44 AM, Tad Perry wrote:
>
> > True, but, this "games subject to chance" wording makes things more
> > difficult.
> >
> > Claiming that poker is more skill than luck might not be so hard to do, but
> > claiming that it isn't "subject to chance" is outright denial as far as I
> > can tell.
> >
> > tvp
> >
> > "lysdexic" <43069532 RemoveThis @recpoker.com> wrote in message
> > news:1159860992$880632@recpoker.com...
> > >
> > > These online sites could easily sue on the basis that Poker is a game of
> > skill -
> > > not gambling. There is already some legal presidence. Poker is
approaching
> > a
> > > national level of acceptance and being recognized as a game of skill; the
> > legal
> > > argument would be much easier to make then it has been in the past.
> > >
> > > Once it is established as a game of skill at the federal level it is
> > exempt from
> > > the ban.
> > >
> > > It may be that only tournament poker and not ring games would be exempted
> > but we
> > > would be back at the tables.
> > >
> > > In fact if the major sites just banned US players from the rings games
and
> > > allowed them to continue playing the tournaments they would probably win
> > if they
> > > were ever prosecuted. The first dismissed case would set the precidence.
> > >


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These sites would have an incredible amount to gain if they sued any agency that
applied the ban to poker tournaments specifically. They could sue in US
Disctrict court. In fact I bet tournament poker will be exempted precisely this
way.


On Oct 3 2006 9:13 AM, O-PGManager wrote:

>
>
> On Oct 3 2006 5:17 AM, chiggachang2002.DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > District Court of DC most likely.
> > Then the DC Circuit Court on appeal
> > Then the Supreme Court
>
> Really? Foreign online poker sites are going to file suit in US court about a
> bill regulating financial institutions?



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