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  1.  ��If you play poker cash video games in France you might want to make positive you get your winnings correct away.
  2.  If not, you could finish up like American poker professional Rick Salomon, who is out $2.eight million following a French court decision launched earlier this week.
  3.  Salomon sued Saudi sheikh Raad al-Khereiji in French court above a personal poker game the two played at the Tiara Miramar Seaside hotel near Cannes in 2014. According to Salomon, the sheikh owed him $two. http://andazaospa.com/tcu-at-byu-2-2-to-be-bowl-eligible/ eight million following a lengthy losing streak in the game.
  4.  The sheikh advised Salomon that his lawyer would contact him to arrange payment of the cash. 7 months later the lawyer notified Salomon that no payment would be coming as the sheikh believed the game was  a friendly portion with no economic stake.
  5.  The situation went to trial in France in October and verdict was delivered earlier this week in the sheikh's favor. The purpose for the ruling was a bit odd. It depended on an old French law from 1804.
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  7.  Below that law, legal action for a gambling debt and payment of that debt would be granted only if the debt was accrued in  games involving weapons, foot or horse racing, chariot races, tennis and other video games of the sort which involves physical talent and workout.
  8.  During the trial the sheikh's attorney argued that poker was a game of chance and not of  physical skill or exercising. Underneath this argument even if there was a debt (which the sheiks' attorney also contested), it could not legally be pursued below French law.
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