Taiwan May Accept Poker Tournaments as "Intellectual Competition"
Key Takeaways
  • Taiwan minister suggests that live poker tournaments could be classified as intellectual competitions and thus excluded from the gambling ban.
  • The WSOP has been in discussions with the Taiwanese government to secure permission to hold an event on the island.

Taiwan is considering relaxing its strict anti-gambling laws to allow big-name international poker tournaments to be held. Currently, all “for-profit games of chance” are banned on the island.