93. Why Online Poker Should Be Legal

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🗓️ 19 September 2012

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The data show that poker is indeed a game of skill, not chance, and a Federal judge agrees. So why are players still being treated like criminals?

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0:00.0	From APM, American Public Media, and WNYC.
0:07.0	This is Frekenomics Radio on Marketplace.
0:11.0	Here's the host of Marketplace, Kyra's Doll.
0:16.0	Time once again for a little Frekenomics Radio that moment every couple of weeks
0:20.0	where we talk to this time, Stephen Levit, the co-author of the books in the blog of the same name.
0:24.0	It is the hidden side of everything.
0:26.0	Dubner is, I guess, out of town.
0:28.0	Yeah, I'm doing great.
0:30.0	So listen, I have a little piece of paper in front of me.
0:32.0	It says we're going to talk about poker today.
0:34.0	And I am shocked to find out there's gambling going on to Frekenomics World Headquarters.
0:38.0	Oh, well, poker's one of my all-time favorite things.
0:41.0	Seriously?
0:42.0	All gambling.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	Well, my father introduced me to it early on when I was no more than five or six
0:48.0	he would go out and play poker with his friends.
0:50.0	Yeah.
0:51.0	And if he won, he would leave a $5 bill in the keyhole of my door.
0:54.0	No way.
0:55.0	And he lost.
0:56.0	He would leave anything.
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