APA Adelaide Organisers and Players NOT GUILTY

[phil markey]

"The courts decided the best way to deal with the matter was to run 2 test cases, one for the players and one for the organisers. We selected Brad Jones as the player’s test case and the police choose me as the organiser’s test case (nice of them).

On the 15th of July 2008 both of us were found not guilty of all charges. The judge has delivered a 49 page judgment that has justified the APA was and is a lawful poker association."

brad jones ran his case seperate from the APA (although his case and pauls case ran together) - he wasnt selected by the APA or the courts - as such brad and his supporters fully funded the case themselves

that said there was certainly a healthy amount of cooperation between the APA and those running brads case

the decision wasnt about the lawfullness of the APA - that was never called into question

[JK.]

Paul,I don't have to tell you that the members of the PNW have alll been behind you and the others facing the court.
I don't know if you had a problem with the admin but don't turn your back on the people who followed your court case for three years.

We want to share with you your victory but on PNW,from where we have been following the case all along.

Please reconsider.

[Virus]

For you JK I will post a link to the full decision, it should be up shortly.

[Bugsy]

I just read the decision in this case. I found it quite amusing that the prosecution raised the possibility that there is no skill involved when a player is a complete novice ( legal speak for retard). conceding that a novice has no skill and no chance to beat a superior player would seem to me to prove that holdem is a game of skill

[JK.]

Bugsy,I agree with you.
It is amazing how little the prosecution knows about gambling and poker in particular.
I was lucky that the judge in my case,actually knew something about the skill in poker.

I remember one incident of many,where the prosecution said that cards are dealt randomly so poker must be a game of chance.

They also charged me with playing Faro instead of Pharaoh High/Low Split.
Faro was played 150 years before I was born in old Wild West saloons.

The prosecution had to show that poker is a game of chance.You would think that even if they don't play poker,they would have done some homework.