Is Poker more a game of skills than luck?

On Feb. 13, a South Carolina judge will hear arguments on a very dubious statement- Is poker a game of skill rather than luck, as he considers whether or not, the five men caught up in a poker raid are guilty.

Preceding month, handed a victory to the defense team of the players when Municipal Court Judge J. Lawrence Duffy, Jr. ruled that he would allow evidence and proof that are capable to convince him that poker is more a game of skill than luck.

Moreover, the decision would not only get the unlawful gambling charges sacked off, but it would also let the legislators elucidate the antiquated anti-gambling law that prohibits any game played with dice or cards. The case would be first of its kind, in the America, where poker would be lawfully ruled a game of skill.

The incident took place almost three years back in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina,
when Bob Chimento, Scott Richards, Michael Williamson, Jeremy Brestel, and John Taylor Willis got charged with illegitimate gambling for playing small-stakes tournament poker.

Like the other several dozen poker players charged with illegal gambling in April 2006, they too had a way out by making a nominal fine. However, for the spirit of the game, they decided to stand against the charges in the hopes of dissolving the antediluvian law that law officials use to charge poker players there.

Last summer, Judge Duffy turned down the idea of dismissing the case, but the charged players took it as a break when the judge decided to allow the skill-versus-luck argument to be made.