Online poker play may be making a comeback
By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal
Online poker may be making a comeback.
Years of legal wrangling led to the nation’s first regulated web poker industry when Nevada introduced it in April 2013.
It took a long time for that launch because critics for years had pointed to the federal Wire Act, which bans betting across telecommunications lines. Poker aficionados argued the game wasn’t gambling because they view poker as a game of skill. That skill set involves assessing whether the player sitting across from you is holding a winning hand or is bluffing — an assessment that is lost in the online version of the game.