07-01-2011
Publication Ayolt Zoer and Frank Tolboom on the gambling market in the Netherlands

Ayolt Zoer and Frank Tolboom, both part of VMW Taxand's gaming practice group, have written an article for Gaming Law Review and Economics. The article focuses on the implications of the groundbreaking judgment of the Dutch Court The Hague which, contrary to the Supreme Court ruling on poker in 1998, argues at length why poker cannot be classified as a game of chance. The District Court did assert that poker is a game of skill. Therefore the organiser of an offline pokertournament was aquitted for a violation of the Dutch Betting and Gaming Act.

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