Thursday was a great day for Swedish poker players as a court took the decision that tournament poker is a skill game like chess and backgammon. This means that Swedish poker clubs now can organize their own real money poker tournaments. Before only the government owned casinos were allowed to.
The decision that was taken in a court in Gothenburg last Thursday was great news for small and big poker clubs in Sweden. Now they can finally organize their own real money poker tournaments without any kind of problems from the government owned casinos and the police. The court decision was especially good for the 2 organizers of a big poker tournament in Grebbestad, 2007. The tournament in Grebbestad was the trigger to the whole debate whether tournament poker is a skill game or not. This case has been followed by lots of people in Sweden that has been waiting for this day for a very long time.
The Swedish poker expert and author, Dan Glimne (picture), says in an interview with one of Sweden's biggest newspapers that this is a big day for Swedish poker and that he's very happy that tournament poker now is treated as other skill games, such as backgammon and chess.
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