London seminar tackles online poker ban
14th February, 2008
A panel of trade and poker experts this week congregated in London for a seminar entitled The Bush Administration's Criminalisation of Online Gaming and the Implication for Global Free Trade.
Among the key speakers at the event was Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson, founder of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society (GPSTS) which aims to promote the poker table as a legitimate teaching environment.
The GTSTS also argues that playing online poker fosters a range of cognitive benefits including strategic thinking, geopolitical analysis, risk assessment and money management.
Addressing numerous global trade experts, Dr Nesson spoke in length about the implications of America's ban on online poker, citing a complaint before the EC which accuses the US government of violating World Trade Organisation rules with its legislation.
"The conflict between the US government and the online community over online poker and other forms of betting will not go away," Dr Nesson asserted. "There is growing concern about its impact on global trade, domestic US law and Internet freedom and regulation."
The Harvard law professor already hit the headlines earlier this week when he called poker the "quintessential American game" in a TV interview.
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