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Message: [QUOTE="PlayedYou73, post: 1726235, member: 40974"] Most of the charges against the sites have "nothing" to do with whether poker is a game of skill or luck. Most of the charges are related to bank fraud and wire fraud, which doesn't focus at all on the game, but how the poker companies and payment processors did business with banks. It's unlikely to go to trial, because the southern district of NY is very well known for not putting forward a case unless they have you dead to rights, but if they did go to trial, the "poker is a game of skill" argument is not a defence for chages like bank and wire fraud, simply because the argument is totally unrelated to those particular charges. [/QUOTE]