Poker is not considered being sport in Russia anymore - ban was lifted!

When Russia carried out sweeping restrictions on gambling this month, closing thousands of casinos and slots parlors, their owners grasped at a small loophole. Poker was legally classified as a sport, giving some the prospect of curbing their losses by becoming private poker clubs.

This week, though, the Kremlin essentially said not so fast.

Russian officials announced that an error was made in 2007 when poker was added to the list of official sports. As a result, poker clubs will also be illegal under the antigambling law.

The ban, which took effect on July 1, was promoted by Vladimir V. Putin, the former president and current prime minister, who said casinos and slots parlors had proliferated in post-Soviet Russia and were a social blight.

Full article here.

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