OK so how would you go about showing poker is a game of skill?

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Morphball - you are obviously someone who looks to the superficial and pretends to know the details. You obviously did not look up the laws of the individual states nor read their statutes, but relied on the summary (if you read anything at all) - the summary does not distinguish poker from other gambling - many of the individual statutes, or court interpertation of those statutes, do exempt poker. So you asserted something that was untrue and called me clueless - I think I know what degree of importance to place on your opinions now. Plus please be advised that Mr. Humphrey's legal opinions are only one of many (and he is in the minority). Only Court opinions, of which there are few, count.

Contrast M to JPFisher of Missouri, who actually did some work and knew his state's Highest Court opinion that poker is a game of skill, and thus not "illegal gambling" when played. JP the exception I am talking about allows social "clubs" to conduct poker on premises and charge for it without being licensed or regulated - I dont live in Missouri, but I expect this would require some level of exclusivity in "club" membership, unlike regulated casinos open to all. You can actually find the statute at the site M linked.

Skallagrim

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Skallagram - I read those statutes word for word, dog, and there is no exception for poker. In fact, some of the states specifically include games of skill for money as gambling. If you think I misread these statutes, please cite the specific places exempting poker.

I assume we both understand that there is a difference between a licensed card room/casino allowed by a state's gambling authority and unlicensed poker rooms playing that take a rake.

The only explicit exemptions I am seeing are for those hold'em tournies at bars where the prize is low and you can enter for free, low stakes charity, and some states do not worry about rake free home games.

No state that I have reviewed allows pokerstars, but I haven't reviewed them all, because there are like 50 of them.