Like I said, any law that insists on making a mutual distinction between games of skill and gambling (risking money on a probability of an outcome) is ill-written.<p>Poker is a game of skill just like backgammon. You can wager money and there is risk (chance) involved, but you can develop skills which will ensure that you are a winner over a less skilled opponent. Just like golf. There is always the chance that you will not make the necessary strikes and a less skilled opponent takes a game from you, but over the long run, you can sufficiently influence the outcome and achieve a positive win rate. This is what makes it a skill-based game. You influence it by your skills. You can place wagers and gamble on the outcome, but that doesn&#x27;t suddenly make it any less not a game of skill.<p>I&#x27;m not very familiar with fantasy sports, but to the best of my knowledge, the same holds true there too.<p>A game of chance cannot be distinguished from games of skill. All games involve chance. This problem probably arises from the poor understanding of &quot;chance&quot; and probabilities by the people who wrote the law (presuming Hanlon&#x27;s razor here). They wanted to ban games where the operator bleeds the players dry, like slots, lottery, etc., and called them &quot;game of chance&quot;, but there is more to the story of &quot;chance&quot;, like i outlined above.