Legal Case to Decide: Poker Luck or Poker Skill?

A Crown Court has the matter before them, and it will be up to them to rule on a thorny issue that has caused no end of arguments over the years: is poker a game of chance and luck, or a game of skill? As any poker player who knows what he or she is doing, they will readily give you the answer: it is both, one more than the other, depending on how you play. The Gutshot Bar on Clerkenwell Road in London, which is also Europe's largest private poker club, is a test case in the issue. The club boasts 12,000 members and is a far cry from the old school image of poker being primarily a game of cutthroats and thieves, or at the very least, degenerates and men down on their luck.