jahcs,Apr 22 2005, 04:01 PM Wrote:The finding of the items may be gambling, I'm not arguing that point.
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The finding of items is gambling? That is merely a random event, no? Does the occurrence of a random event define gambling? A man walking down a beach spies a ten-dollar bill in the sand. Wouldn't this finding of an item, for our purposes, be considered a random event and not gambling? Has the man by finding an item of necessity engaged in gambling?
jahcs,Apr 22 2005, 04:01 PM Wrote:The sale and purchase of the items is not. The seller has an item, you want it, money is exchanged, the item is handed over. This is a sale, not a gamble.
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Is it therefore possible for a casino to operate its normal business without anyone being engaged in gambling simply by having slot machines and roulette tables pay out in tokens, or chips, and then provide a separate transaction of buying these chips from its patrons? Where did the gambling take place? The random occurrence of a dice roll, or whatever, rewards with chips. Chips have little or no intrinsic value. The chips are bought in a separate transaction that is a sale based upon an arbitrary, or market value assigned by the casino.
Regardless of the detour necessary to understand gambling, or whether it is even necessary to first determine whether it is skill, or luck involved in bluffing your opponent with a potential inside straight showing before recognizing that gambling has occurred, the original point, or question, of Whether a game should be engaged in for fun or for profit? seems to have been lost in speculation of What governmental body's laws and regulations cover games such as video poker? or, more trenchantly phrased: Will Sony name its new servers Potawatomi and Oneida and move them to Nevada?