I have been thinking about this bs laws about gaming, and the wire act which states you can not wager on a game of chance. If you don't think sportsbetting and poker is more a game of skill than chance then you just have no clue. yeah there is luck involved, but there is also luck involved in golf and every sport out there. black jack is a game of chance, roulette is a game of chance, craps is a game of chance, sportsbetting and poker can both be beaten by skilled pros. a game in which thousands of people can make a living off of year in and year out can not be a game of chance. That is also the reason pepole should never worry about the wire act of 1967, cause it is not hard to argue to anyone with half a brain that sportsbetting and poker are games of skill. what do you guys think?
Where'd you come up with that?
Federal Wire Act of 1961; § 1084:
Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers on any sporting event or contest, or for the transmission of a wire communication which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers
To me, the Wire Act neither covers the bettor (as widely interpreted) nor the foreign bookmaker (disputed in USA v Cohen), but only syndicates and state-side agents/bookies whose transactions cross state lines.
In any case, "game of chance" isn't mentioned anywhere by this act.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled<sup id="_ref-1" class="reference">[2]</sup> in November 2002 that the Federal Wire Act prohibits electronic transmission of information for sports betting across state lines but affirmed a lower court ruling<sup id="_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup> that the Wire Act "'in plain language' does not prohibit Internet gambling 'on a game of chance.'"
SRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling
SRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_gambling
