Is Poker Legal

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Originally posted by Wizzo@Jan 17 2005, 10:31 AM
This is the one area that I've done quite abit of research and actually paid a couple of lawyers for their opinions, and the overall consensus is "we don't know, but most likely yes".

Casino gaming and sports betting online is illegal, there's even a few people enjoying club fed because of it.

However, there's no cases that have been perused in regards to poker. The problem is that many states conceder poker a game skill rather than chance, so it's still a unknown. US law is very unclear on the matter.

The closest anyone has come to being prosecuted was Paradise Poker had $3,000,000 seized which they had given the Discovery channel for TV ads , because the Govt. said it was for advertising a illegal activity and from best I know they never got it back...

There have been quite a few raids of backroom poker games at bars in New Orleans over the last six months or so.