CNN Article putting Poker in a more positive light, highlighting skill

[Skallagrim]

OB-Wan, if you are going to become a useful poster here on 2+2 you are, as TheEngineer said, going to have to establish credibility first.

You establish very little credibility by taking one of the single most useful arguments we have in the fight to get online poker expressly legal and trashing it because in your mind you have discovered the great observation all the rest of us missed: legislators can change laws. Duh....

You dont show any evidence that they are working to change these skill v. chance laws now; nor do you show any evidence that they will rise up and change those laws if we win in the courts.

It is apparent that you came in here, and if you are not a shill, briefly looked around without any real research and decided that you know better than the folks who have worked on these issues for well over a year how to get to our goal. If you are offended by my tone to you, so be it - you deserved it.

Perhaps you might want to realize that the only reason you are still capable of playing online poker at the moment (if, in fact, you do) is because the FBI and the DOJ recognize the "poker is skill" argument as real challenge to them in court. That is the reason ALL their prosecutions so far have been against sportsbetting sites.

And, of course, other than objecting to my putting un-named foul words in your mouth (just like a Friend Of the Family member would) you really have no clue that the Skill Games Protection Act is our best hope right now. Its called the SKILL games protection act for a reason.

Skallagrim