Those hoping for a legal and regulated poker framework in the Indian state of Gujarat face up to bitter disappointment this morning after a judge throws a civil petition to call poker a game of skill into the trash.

When I think about the politicians of the world playing rock, paper, scissors with the future of online poker I feel frustrated, angry, and devoid of empathy.

Of course, my thinking is as shallow as the conversations I used to have with the barflies. I want to write to Santa, begging him to place a few poker chip sets under the political trees.

Educate them!