"Poker players are simply being inconvenienced, and poker players who are in states where there is clearly no prohibition on poker are being inconvenienced," Lederer said.
Esther Lederersaid she had had none other than the moral principles gained from her parents, immigrants from Russia, and being brought up in a solid provincial town, Sioux City, Iowa.
Peter Lederer, director of Diageo in Scotland and a senior figure in the tourism sector, said that a new tax would send the wrong signals to those thinking of investing in the Scottish economy.