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Check Out How Playing Games Skills is Different from Gambling

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Parmit Kaur
Check Out How Playing Games Skills is Different from Gambling

People often associate online card games like online rummy with gambling games. There seems to be a fine line between a game of chance and a game of skill. There have been debates about banning games like online rummy as it involves a chance or gambling. But it has been cleared recently as a game of skill which shouldn’t be banned at all.

Here are a few differences between a game of chance and a game of skills:

A Game of Chance

A game of chance is purely dependent on the player’s luck or just a fluke. These games are categorized under the class of gambling which comes under the meaning of betting on pure luck. Which is banned and playing it is considered as an offense is different states.

A Game of Skills

Online rummy and other card games just like it is and should be categorized into the game of skills. When a player invests his or her time into learning, practicing and being an expert in any game which doesn’t involve pure luck in winning any money or lottery than that game becomes a game of skills and not chance or luck by any means.

Predominance Test

There has been a test, known as the predominance test, which is used to examine whether a game is a game of skill or a game of chance. According to this test, a scale is set that defines whether the game is of pure chance or pure skill or a mixture of both.

The Material Element Test

Another most commonly used test to check whether a game is a skill game or it is based purely on luck is the material element test. The test asks the question of whether chance plays a material role in determining a game’s outcome. For example, in a few games, players use their skills and talent to win it but there are times in those games when the player completely guesses the next move. When skill is the dominant role then the game is complete of skill rather by chance and hence not banned.

Technology trends increasingly move at a faster pace than our state legislatures (as was evident when daily fantasy sports arrived on the scene). Even in the last decade, as digital gaming has grown exponentially, developers have found ways to capitalize on this emerging craze.

However, though the sport is considered to be skilled based games, sports betting is illegal. In betting the participants place a bet on an event against the house and thus it is placed in the category of chance games. For this reason, it is not possible to legally bet on any type of sports events. It can be said that the battle over which games are skilled based games and which ones are not will go on for quite some time until a proper method of resolving this issue is thought of.

 

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