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[QUOTE="Excomm, post: 3024959, member: 187647"]
It has been designated federally as a game of skill and not gambling.  It is designated as gambling in other countries.

Whether you consider it gambling is up to your own definition of gambling.  If wagering money to win money = gambling to you then poker is gambling.  If you think games with a skill edge (poker/DFS) are different than games with a house edge (roulette/lottery) then you probably don't consider poker gambling.

I personally consider poker a game with a skill edge and not gambling.  It is similar to investing in the stock market (you are using the data given to you to spend your money where you think it will be most profitable).

I think for the future of online poker in the U.S. it is important that it is designated as not gambling both from a regulatory view and a public perspective.  It is important to dispel the notion that poker is a game that only gamblers would play if we are to convince states to allow and regulate online poker.
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