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Much to the dismay of the lucky poker player who won $28,000 online, the Supreme Court of Denmark seized the amount and declared it illegal as the Danish Law prohibited professional gambling on land and on the internet. The player’s only source of income was through gambling and this was even more of an offense since he used gambling as a means of survival.

The Supreme Court stated that the players must adhere to Danish law when wagering from Denmark, even if the online casino gambling poker rooms were being operated from servers outside the Danish jurisdiction. Since gambling is illegal in the Scandinavian cities violating the Danish law is regarded as a criminal offense, and those who committed these crimes had to pay dearly for their misdoings, and one of the unfortunate victims was the poker winner.

While online gambling lawyers were of the opinion that the verdict was unfair, prosecutors said that they had no intention to ban online poker, but purely to apply existing gaming law uniformly to both land based and online venues. Crown Prosecutor “Svend Larsen” told the Copenhagen News firmly that they will take a decision on a case to case basis whether a person was playing professionally or not. This was to confirm that they were not taking unanimous decisions but were studying each case independently.

This case is somewhat similar to the online poker payment confiscation in the US, where prosecutors were disagreeing at the decision that illegal gambling earnings should be surrendered. The big difference is that in the US the law enforcement is unable to decipher which law it is that determines gambling as illegal, and by and large declaring gambling as illegal.