Court Orders Danish Online Poker Player to Forfeit WinningsThirty-Five-Year-Old Forced to Hand Over €26,000 as Supreme Court Decides He was Playing Professionally |
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The Danish Supreme Court has forced a 35-year-old unemployed man to forfeit DKK194,000 (€26,000) he had won playing online poker after finding he was playing professionally.
The court ruled that the man had broken laws relating to earning a living from gambling as he had won the money over the course of a full year and had no other source of income.
However it quashed a DKK5,000 fine the man had received from a lower court.
Earlier this year, according to The Copenhagen Post, a poker tournament organiser successfully argued before the Supreme Court that he was not violating any law and the Supreme Court agreed although this ruling dealt with only live tournaments and did not consider online poker.
According to Danish online newspaper prosecutors said the decision does not outlaw online gambling. Svend Larsen, for the State, said, “We will decide on a case by case basis whether someone is playing professionally.”
Earlier this year the same news source stated Denmark was to end its gambling monopoly and issue licenses to operators.
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