Poker is good for you? Players make case against online ban

Poker develops cognitive, mathematical and psychological skills which help students become successful in life, said the Bruin Casino Gaming Society. Thus--the online ban against it should be lifted--and more people are jumping on board with this type of philosophy. Charles Nesson, a law professor at Harvard, said he would like to teach poker to children, and also thinks the law against gaming is "vulnerable".

Poker advocates acknowledge they are in an uphill fight to roll back the Internet gambling ban enacted last year by Congress. They launched a lobbying drive this week partly because a bill by Representative Barney Frank to overturn the ban has stalled.

Proposed regulations by the U.S. Department of Treasury to enforce the ban may have made the situation worse, said Radley Balko, a senior editor of the libertarian Reason magazine. If the ban is overturned and Internet gambling is allowed in the United States, mainstream casinos would likely take over the industry. This can't be an awful thing considering how much tax revenue legalized gambling in Nevada brings in--and the assumption is that it could mean billions to the US government in a short period of time. Perhaps proving that poker is more than just people trying to win money quickly, etc., is the way to go. But this is just the beginning...

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