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This article analyzes the legality of offering poker as a skill game in the U.S. In making this analysis I have assumed that the cardroom will charge a rake in the same manner as the majority of the other dozen or so online poker rooms. That is, the players will be charged a “Nevada-style rake� where the operator of the game is paid a percentage of the amount in the pot, up to a stated maximum dollar amount per hand.

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Tbrains behind the new room include over a half dozen well-known U.S.-resident tournament poker players who apparently personally put up some of the money and provided some of the effort to write and debug software to allow the room to operate on the Internet. They refer to themselves collectively as “the Team.” The URL under which this online cardroom can be reached is shown in the domain registration records as being owned and administered by the Los Angeles-based software developer. [N.B. After the first publication of this article, the registration of the URL was changed on June 8, 2004, to the name of an offshore business, which provided the registrar’s data base with an apparently fictitious telephone number. The URL, however, continues to use a domain server with a U.S. address and which is listed as belonging to a person who includes a portion of the name of the software development company in his name identification… more

One of the most widely used sayings in poker is “Don’t bluff a calling stationâ€?. This is quite simply because you are more likely to be called down by this type of player. This sounds like such an obvious thing to say, but you wouldn’t believe the number of posts I’ve read on various for a along the lines of “HOW COULD HE CALL MY BLUFF DOWN WITH THAT???â€?. One of the reasons you should be paying attention to your table and making notes even when you’re not in a hand is so that you know who can be bluffed off strong hands, and who can’t even be bluffed off Ace-high on a dangerous board… more