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Originally Posted by Royal Sampler
4) Xenophon is a gormless half-wit who refuses to differentiate between games of skill and games of chance.
I took this from the apple mobile poker app removal thread.
But hang on, the Labor party has already legislated for online poker to be banned. And the Act itself doesn't differentiate between games of skill and games of chance as it states:
"gambling service" means:
(a) a service for the placing, making, receiving or acceptance of bets; or
(b) a service the sole or dominant purpose of which is to introduce individuals who wish to make or place bets to individuals who are willing to receive or accept those bets; or
(c) a service for the conduct of a lottery; or
(d) a service for the supply of lottery tickets; or
(e) a service for the conduct of a game, where:
(i) the game is played for money or anything else of value; and
(ii)
the game is a game of chance or of mixed chance and skill; and
(iii) a customer of the service gives or agrees to give consideration to play or enter the game; or
(f) a gambling service (within the ordinary meaning of that expression) that is not covered by any of the above paragraphs.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/c...gaming_service
And poker is a mixed game of skill and chance (luck) - so the lobbyists need this whole Act to be repealed because unless it is Abbott is within his rights to enforce it as the Labor government should be doing atm in a strict literal sense.