Raising The Stakes For Online Gaming

Games are a source of entertainment which bring enjoyment in the otherwise mundane everyday schedule. The interest in a game accelerates where there is involvement of stakes in it. This also raises a presumption of such an act being of the nature of gambling. The segregation of games of skill from gambling is of vital importance in order to establish legality of their conduct. The Supreme Court has differentiated the games depending upon the involvement of skill.

GAME OR GAMBLE?

A game in which the outcome is purely dependent on chance devoid of any application of skill are classifies as games of chance. On the other hand, the games even with an element of chance is held to be a game of skill, if it depends upon superior knowledge, training, attention, experience, adroitness of the player and the predominance of element of skill over the element of chance¹: