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Online Poker Should Be Dealt a Fresh Hand With Regulation: View
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The odds of winning the grand prize in the Powerball lottery are 1 in 195,249,054. State governments, by and large, encourage participation in this monopolistic enterprise, even though it randomly rewards a very few people with a very large amount of money for doing very little.
Oddly, most states, and the federal government, consider wagering online on a card game -- in a fair fight, against other players of varying skill -- a moral outrage.