Apr
28
This question is one that asked many times over and chewed over often but has it been answered? If you ask pro poker players they will tell you that of course it isn’t, if it was they would not be taking part as professionals. On the other hand the lottery, roulette wheels, slot machines, crap tables etc can fairly be described as gambling, not poker though which requires skill in dealing with the hand that you have been dealt.
Legal judgments have been made in some states in the U.S.A. Colorado, Pennsylvania and North Carolina come to mind, they have decided that the skill elements override the chance factors and that, in legal terms, poker is not gambling. Of course there is an element of chance in the hand that you are dealt, but that is where the overriding skill of the winning poker players comes to the fore. What do you think?
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