It’s six weeks since the law on Internet gaming has been passed in the USA and just as you think the dust is starting to settle and the ink drying on the paper, UK based leading skill game operator Game Account throws a spanner into the already twisted legal wheel of uncertainty and ambiguity, with their decision to pull out of skill gaming in the USA.
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Their reasoning behind this is that whatever way you look at it skill gaming contains an element of chance. Surely, getting up in the morning contains an element of chance! You could slip on a bar of soap in the bathroom, or trip over the dog or break your neck coming down the stairs. Everything in life has an element of chance.
What the fear factor is now for the skill gaming industry is that others may follow suit; even though there is no clear definition games such as this covered backgammon and in fact have been cleared in law with the ruling that backgammon is a game of skill as per the 1981 Barr Oregon ruling.
The UIGEA specifically legislates for ‘games, subject to chance’ and makes no attempt to carve-out or exclude skill-based contests or skill-based competition gaming.
Is the Game Account decision purely a commercial one because its original source of revenue has dried up from its well of poker players? It has sought legal opinion on its decision, which has opted for pulling out of skill gaming. Game account states that skill gaming is a gray area, as far as the new law is concerned, which is true, but without mention of any skill gaming being affected by the law specifically, why pull out?
Backgammon has been talked about in the gaming circles as the new poker; it has certainly seen its star rise rapidly in recent months and increase in recent weeks with a whole new batch of sites opening to offer redundant poker players a new table to play at.
In conjunction with this, are the new TV slots on Eurosport, which is taking backgammon into the homes of the masses, in the same way poker did.
What should be fully understood is that this decision is only applicable in the US ; Europe is set to profit from this and with more expedient legislation being propelled through UK government to adopt gaming online to make the UK the new US.
In putting doubt into the minds of gamers by pulling out, has Game Account opened a can of worms which is set to wriggle and ingest itself into the psyche of all online game operators and players who thought they had found the solution to the question, What is a skill game?
Somebody tell us once and for all, what is the answer?
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