Whether the poker game consists of chance or dexterity seems to be an argument without end; and in Britain this week, this debate evolved negatively when the chance theory was proclaimed for by an appeals court in the UK.

In the UK, the private Gutshot Poker Club continues its ongoing legal struggle in the case in order to have the courts categorize it as a skilled game, and so having the gambling license requirement annulled. 

Favorite Internet poker rooms operated by Gutshot, and community Gutshot.com supplemented its Internet concerns by opening in 2004 an actual real poker room. Gutshot was indicted by the local authorities for running an unlicensed land-based poker room and providing chance games; as a result it was immediately closed.

Claiming that poker is a skilled game, Gutshot's proprietors countered the prosecuting counsel and thus should not be under the Gaming Act from 1968 outlawed. Joe Kelly, the US business law professor testified in the first trial that poker is most definitely a dexterous game. 

That poker comprises a definite amount of chance and should be outlawed was ruled when the appeal was taken up and Gutshot did not win the case.

Posted on: February 25, 2008

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