It's to the best of our knowledge from PRI.

I'm Anne Strain Champs.

Today, skill versus luck.

We're up on night to get lucky.

We're up on night to get lucky.

In the late 90s, poker exploded because suddenly you could play it online.

You could gamble on poker anywhere, anytime, for real money.

And forget about going to Vegas.

There were people making a living playing online poker at home in their pajamas.

But then came, wait for it.

Black Friday.

April 15th, 2011, the day the federal government shut down the top three online poker gambling sites.

They froze accounts, indicted executives, sent some of them to jail.

And all those people who were making a living playing poker had to find something else to do.

But here's the thing.

Remember I said we're talking about skill versus luck?

Well, the law that shut down internet gambling.

It's called the unlawful internet gambling enforcement act.

That law has a loophole.

It turns out it's not all internet gambling that's against the law.

It's wagering on games that are subject to chance.

And game designer, actually gaming legend, Jason Rohrer, took this loophole as a challenge.

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