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Feeling a bit absurd debating a sober legal manner with a poster named "cokehead" I will nonetheless say that the precedent cited does cut to the core of the matter. Poker is a funny game -- it's clearly a gambling game, yet it is also clearly a game of skill. So court's have trouble deciding whether cardrooms should be treated like game clubs, and be legal, or like casinos, and be banned. In California, for many years some poker forms were legal and others were not.I think the bike et al could spread draw but not hold'em, Eventually, the laws caught up with reality, and all poker games were allowed. These days, card rooms seem to be all over in CA, and it seems to be no big deal.