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Sept. 22 (Bloomberg) — Bwin Interactive Entertainment AG lost a court bid to overturn a 2007 prohibition against offering online gambling and other Internet games to customers in the German state of Lower Saxony.

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The legality of real-money online poker is colored with different shades of gray in various jurisdictions. Its legality in Germany hinges in part on how much of the game is up to chance. A decision in that country could spell out an important precedent for the entire EU, according to Axel Freiherr v. dem Bussche and Tobias Schelinski.

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