[oldbookguy]

You are missing the whole point, under this new Mass. law, EVEN these games will be illegal.

That was the point of the question, legal in Mass. and my reply, skill gaming is legal and of-course our / my position is poker is no LESS skill than solitaire, ergo, legal as well.

The fact that each player has an equally difficult hand, there is still chance involverd, you are faced with chooosing say, which 9 to move to the 10, one right, one wrong, pure chance.

Poker is much the same way, is it easy playing pocket KK when a ace flops? Or QQ wnen A K flops?

No.

obg


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There is a very big differnce between WorldWinner and on-line poker. Here is how they get around it_taken from their site:
"Even with games in which chance would appear to dictate a role in the outcome of the contest, such as solitaire, WorldWinner has engineered the game so the outcome is based on the player's skill. For example, WorldWinner levels the playing field by providing each player with an equally difficult hand of cards, so it's ultimately how quickly and skillfully each player approaches the game that determines the winner. And while every WorldWinner solitaire hand is potentially solvable if a player plays their cards right, a player ultimately wins a tournament by outscoring their opponent, even if they don't solve the hand.

Although the distinctions between skill-based games and games of chance are clear, "
Obviously the task at hand in Massachusetts is to prove that poker is skill based rather than "chance" based.

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