Benchmarks: Gambling contract may be enforceable 
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Anyone who has gone to law school probably has some dim memory of being told that gambling contracts are generally unenforceable on public policy grounds.
But Tuesday a California court decided that a professional poker player just might have enforceable rights under an alleged oral agreement to stake another gambler.
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