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The Poker Grapevine – Greg Raymer Witness in Poker Case
Posted by: Randy Williams - Fri, 2011-11-11 08:46
Ex-
PokerStars pro Greg Raymer was called on as witness by the Poker Players Alliance, in a circuit courtroom the other day, in a case which sought to make poker halls legal in the state of Virginia. The case was a legal tug-of-war between ex-poker hall owner Charles Daniels whose business had been closed down in 2010 and Portsmouth’s commonwealth attorney Earle C Mobley.
Raymer’s role was to prove through a 15-minute demonstration, that poker rewarded skill over luck, thus supporting Daniels’ claim that poker was a game of skill rather than one of luck, hence his business had been closed illegally. Raymer’s aim was to prove that poker/
on line poker didn’t belong in a category of games which featured uncertain outcomes, or the outcomes of which depended on chance.
While he did succeed in convincing Judge Thomas Shadrick that skill did indeed have a huge impact in poker, eventually, the ruling was made in favor of Earle C Mobley, on account of the fact that despite the presence of skill elements, the outcome of each hand was still uncertain.
In other news: Betfair has finally found a new CEO after months of searching: Paddy Power’s Breon Corcoran will apparently take over the reins of the company next year. According to Betfair, Corcoran has already resigned from his current position. Corcoran will jump aboard replacing David Yu, who had let the online betting group know that he would not renew his contract come next October. Yu has been Betfair’s CEO for 6 years, but the recent southward dive that the company’s shares took, prompted him to consider stepping down.
According to Corcoran, who is looking forward to take over, the unique technology currently in Betfair’s possession enables future growth and a prime position in the online gambling industry of the future.
In still other news: Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson were inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
