A recently requested report from Lund University will be adding the idea of online poker to its criteria. The report is going to determine what effect the internet has on Swedish teens and their norms and values. The university research program decided to add poker as they felt it was a necessary addition with the recent explosion of online casino gambling.

They will be working with various social networking community websites to compile data regarding the teens, and they are going after some of the more popular sites. They are working with The Pirate Bay and MySpace to see what kinds of social patterns they can come up with, as well as the Svenska Pokerf�rbundet which is a poker association. They are trying to see what effect these sites have on the teens and are accessing areas that governmental officials don't normally take into consideration.

The project will take four years to completely compile, and they will be talking with ninth graders from Lund. They are going to talk to them about the normal social activities that their age group gets into like file sharing and putting photos and videos on the internet, as well as how they access poker sites and how they play poker when online.

They say that they have a theory about how people interact on the internet is different from how they interact in traditional society, and how they handle money and poker playing is part of that. For many of them they have more access to poker playing on the internet than they do in traditional society.