Judge is Allowing Defense Team to Argue That Poker is a Skill Game Friday, Feb.
13, is the day that a South Carolina judge will hear arguments that poker is more of a game of skill than luck as he considers if five men who were caught up in a poker raid should be found guilty.
Last month, the defense team of the players got a victory when Municipal Court Judge J. Lawrence Duffy, Jr. ruled that he’d allow evidence that may convince him that that poker is more a game of skill than luck.
This would not only most likely get the illegal gambling charges dismissed, but it would force legislators to clarify the more-than-a-century-old anti-gambling law that outlaws any game that uses dice or cards.
And it would be the first time that poker was legally ruled a game of skill in any court in America.
It was nearly three years ago when Bob Chimento, Scott Richards, Michael Williamson, Jeremy Brestel, and John Taylor Willis were charged with illegal gambling for playing small-stakes tournament poker in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
They could’ve paid a nominal fine like the other several dozen poker players who were charged with illegal gambling in April 2006, but they decided to fight the charges in the hopes of getting rid of the antiquated law that law officials use to charge poker players there.
Judge Duffy refused to dismiss the case last summer, but the charged players think that they got a break when the judge decided to allow the skill-versus-luck argument to be made.
According to Chimento, a benefactor who wishes to remain unnamed is putting up a “substantial” amount of money to help fund the defense team.
Vanessa Rousso Posing for Sports Illustrated Swim Suit 
Vanessa Rousso had some exciting news in her latest video blog on PokerStars announcing that she will be posing for the first time in a bikini for Sports Illustrated Swim Suit magazine. She is quited excited about the photo shoot, although she is just as nervous and scared as she explains in the video blog. To view the video blog and to get a better view of Vanessa please visit PokerStars.com and then navigate to the ‘Team PokerStars Pro’ tab and click on Vessa Rousso name or image.
Rousso is one of poker’s hottest babes and can also beat online and live tournament poker. Her first major score came in April 2006 when she finished 7th at the World Poker Tour’s $25,000 No Limit Championship, which earned her over $260,000 and in October 2007 she placed second in the PokerStars WCOOP No Limit Hold’em Main Event that landed her an incredible $700,782.
Other poker babes that have modeled and participated in photo shoots have been poker player Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh who posted for Playboy magazine and appeared in the 2008 April edition. Leigh also has appeared in FHM magazine in 2007. Shana Hiatt one of the internets most famous poker babe that is known for hosting the World Poker Tour and Poker After Dark appeared in Playboy as well, in the April 1995 issue, “The Girls of Hawaiian Tropic”.
Poker News Daily 01/08/2009 
