It's All Luck!!

Jesus Wept

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker_news/article/8815


Here is the article for the lazy:

Cardplayer.com article wrote:

N.C. Court Rules Poker Is a Game of Chance


Court Quashed Attempts of Man to Open Poker Club There

The North Carolina Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that poker is a game of luck and not one of skill.
The court ruled in a case that was appealed to it by Howard Fierman, who wanted to open up a poker club called the Joker Club in Durham County in 2004.


When the attorney general of Durham County, Jim Hardin, told Fierman that that the club would be illegal, Fierman sued the county on the grounds that poker is a game of skill and should not be considered a gambling game.
The case was first heard in county Superior Court July 1, 2005 and the Appellate Court Aug. 23, 2006. The ruling was just made yesterday (May 1).

All three Appellate judges ruled that poker is a game of chance, despite hearing testimony from four witnesses for the plaintiff, and only one, an officer for the North Carolina Alcohol Law Enforcement Division named Richard Thornell, for the Attorney General. The witnesses for the plaintiff included Card Player contributor and poker instructor Roy Cooke.

Cooke testified that although on any single hand of poker, chance may defeat skill, over the long run, skill will ultimately beat luck. He also testified that there are certain mathematical strategies players can learn to use to improve their game.


The court chose to believe Thornell, who testified that he’s played poker for nearly 40 years. He told the court that although he feels there’s skill in poker, luck ultimately prevails. He specifically noted a hand that he watched on television that had a 91 percent chance to win lose to a hand than only had a 9 percent chance to win.

In effect, the court ruled that chance dominates skill in poker, and therefore, the state will consider it a game of chance the way state law is written.

Idiots.

I don't envisage a huge response to this thread, what is there to say?

Judges are morons, at least, in North Carolina.

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P.S

cardplayer.com Article wrote:

Court Quashed Attempts of Man to Open Poker Club There

Dunno what kind of monkey wrote the article :eek: Maybe one of the judges.

LuckyLloyd

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Chucky the tree

poker is gambling though.


Edit: Ok this is taking the piss

The court chose to believe Thornell, who testified that he’s played poker for nearly 40 years. He told the court that although he feels there’s skill in poker, luck ultimately prevails. He specifically noted a hand that he watched on television that had a 91 percent chance to win lose to a hand than only had a 9 percent chance to win.

Jesus Wept

UnLuckyLloyd wrote:

The American South = LOL!!

End thread.

This is the type of logic you are dealing with, when half of 'South Carolina' is more northerly than large parts of 'North Carolina'. :eek:

5starpool

Yeah, it's not like the most northerly part of ireland is in the 'south' or anything.

Jesus Wept

5starpool wrote:

Yeah, it's not like the most northerly part of ireland is in the 'south' or anything.

That's a different deal altogether though!!

Do you mind me askin who you booked with for the Champs League (reading soccer forum), or how many arms and legs they charged?

5starpool

Abbey Travel, and more than 23 arms and legs for a 2 night stay.

Jesus Wept

5starpool wrote:

Abbey Travel, and more than 23 arms and legs for a 2 night stay.

mmmm, very tempted to go, finding it hard to part with so many limbs

5starpool

I am still aching from the surgery.