Of course, I would like playing poker in a tournament to be legal, but many states do not allow this activity. Mason compares playing in a poker tournament to being in a crackhouse. My point is breaking the law by going to a crackhouse is obvious to everyone in that house that the law is being violated. Going to a poker tournament is often an activity that the player believes is legal when it is not. (In fact, the organizer often thinks it is legal when it is not.)
You can get a good explanation of why we need player protection for poker tournaments and similar activities by going to the following link. This is a webpage of Chuck Humphrey, the poker player and lawyer who is likely the country's leading authority on poker laws.
http://www.gambling-law-us.com/Artic...e-proposal.htm
Here you will also see some proposed legislation, a colaborative effort by Ckuck Humphrey and Bob Ciaffone, to remedy the problem.
Mr. Humphrey's website "US Gambling Law" is the best reference source for state and federal laws on poker and other gambling. That site's main URL is:
http://www.gambling-law-us.com/
I would like to publicly thank Chuck Humphrey for donating a lot of his time for the purpose of getting fair laws on poker.