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Casino games: Poker recognition. Part Three
The first major victory was marked in Austria. In 1993, an entrepreneur and a great fun of Poker Peter Zanoni in Vienna opened a poker club "Concord Card Casino". The club has positioned itself as the place where they not only play poker as a game of skill Gambling. In essence, the club was immediately of interest to the gambling business, which saw it as a competitor. At the suggestion of the gambling business, the press began to attack the club, were the managers of the clubs accused of illegal gambling games, contacts with criminals, etc.
Very soon gambling lobby provokes to bring the state a fee of illegal gambling against the manager of the club. The court found the resolution, which shocked many people. Proponents of the association trying to prove that poker is a game of chance is not just a competition of skills, know-how. The court to hear the experts in applied it led an independent mathematical skills of poker rules, the results showed that explicitly dominated capabilities of a chance in this game. Poker was brought in line with chess. The court accepted the results of the expertise and adopted the resolution in favor of the poker club. For today, the "Concord Card Casino" is one of the largest Poker Club Europe. The founder of the club Peter Zanoni inspired by his victory, he has now successfully on the popularization of poker and its recognition as a sport in Europe. To this purpose, he asserts Austrian Association of Sports and Poker in 2006, he founded the European Association of Sports Poker.
A similar court session was held in the UK in January 2007. Derek Kelly had in court, he is the owner of a Poker Club Gutshot Club in central London. Unfortunately for Derek, and all English Poker fans turned to British law is less liberal than the Austrian one. Having identified a skill related poker games, it gave the preference to have a chance in the game. But British people should not upset the attitude to sport skill in their country, is even more complicated, for example, chess is officially a sport only a few Years recognized. Derek Kelly's case had provoked in society, a live discussion, which was taken by politicians. Very soon the British media suggest that poker bridge should be put together with chess.
At the end of July 2007 is good news for poker fans came from Denmark. Court proceedings as Frederic Hostrup, a chairman of the Danish Poker Association finished in favor of Frederic and poker. As in Austria Hostrup was accused of illegal gambling. The lawyer Henrick Hoffman proved to the court that poker is not gambling but a game of skill. The winners have already stated that they are now for the rights of their favorite game in the field of to fight across Europe.
Poker fitted smoothly into society of the 20th Century and a number of their fans grow in geometric progression. In modern World not to know how to play poker, a mauvais ton. Under such conditions, can not the authorities fail to take into account the thoughts of the people part of it is. The authorities should keep away from prejudice and from common sense and the opinion of the majority out.
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