Now that Federal Judge Jack Weinstein’s ruling in Brooklyn Tuesday that poker is a skill and not a game of chance paved the way for online price per head poker sites, there is a now a chance that sports betting could also be deemed the same.
For the past few years the Poker Alliance of America has been urging for legalization through “education and awareness the PPA will keep this game of skill, one of America’s oldest recreational activities, free from egregious government intervention and misguided laws,” according to their website. (theppa.org)
Live betting against other players, whether in person or now through the internet is now set to be the biggest expansion of gambling since the sports betting was introduced to Las Vegas in the 1970’s.