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...ribbon speckled with tiny spades, diamonds, hearts and clubs. Bloch, 38, holds two engineering degrees from MIT and a law degree from Harvard. But he makes his living playing cards, and he was in Washington to improve the odds that Congress would lift its year-old ban on Internet poker...
Professors and students at the Law School are placing their bets on the legal legitimacy of online poker. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, is exploring the possibility of a bill that will remove congressional limitations on online gaming. In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, barring U.S. banks from transferring money to online gaming companies. But this April, Rep. Barney Frank ’61 (D-Mass.) introduced a bill...
...Addington acknowledged that the game still faces many lingering negative perceptions. When he played poker in Texas in the 1960s, Addington often brought weapons to the game because sheriffs cracked down on games, he said...
Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, who moderated the debate and dealt the questions, pressed the speakers on whether poker was a game of chance or skill, arguing that a distinction needs to be made between the two if a legal standard is to be applied...
Lederer responded by saying that, while luck is involved in many hands of poker, he was still willing to bet that skill is the main factor in deciding who wins or loses a game...