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Can You Play Real Money Online
Casinos In The USA? |
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The internal war inside the
United States of America between the choice of free people to do what they like
with their own money and the anti-gambling bible wielding conservatives can
appear very confusing to anyone looking in, especially if you live in the UK
where there is virtually unlimited access to digital gambling
products.
At first glance it might make some sense for god fearing
people to worry about the spread of the vice of gambling but they don't seem to
raise their voice when it comes to going to war with any country that is
different from them, or the peculiar nonsensical right to bear arms in a
liberal democracy. However god has nothing to do with it, its just a power
battle that is made more complicated by the additional conflict of the federal
government trying to impose laws on states that believe their governance is
their own. That is further complicated by individual state departments trying
to enforce their own interpretation of different federal laws in a constant to
and fro of court rulings. No one basically knows where they are in terms of the
rule of law, or even which law applies.
The Wire Act
What is known is that you can play
for regular dollars in US real
money casinos that are completely legal right at this moment and it would
take a giant step from the Department Of Justice to enforce their November 2019
published opinion that The Federal Wire Act (1961) applies to all gambling and
not just sports betting. The reason they can't enforce their opinion is that a
U.S District Court Judge made a judgement in June 2019 that the Justice
Department's opinion was invalid. They intern have lodged an appeal in the
First Court Of Appeals, the name of which tells you this could go higher and
run on for a long time.
However the Wire Act is really called the
Interstate Wire Act and specifically talks about telecommunications across
state lines, or country borders, for the purpose of betting. So as long as you
are gambling online with a facility that is based in the state you are living
in, then it is completely legal and therefore no Fed department can intervene.
This of course is simple when it comes to playing
casino
games because they are digitally created by servers and reside in the state
where you live, if you do live in the U.S.A.. The problem comes when the casino
operator wants to offer you sports betting like every other casino around the
world. This is because here there was another law to get in everyone's way, the
Bradley Act of 1992.
PAPSA
The Professional and Amateur Sports
Protection Act 1992 (known as PAPSA or Bradley Act) set out to outlaw sports
betting across all states with some notable exceptions of the state of Nevada
and the country wide parimutuel betting on horses and greyhounds. Unfortunately
for sports bettors the individual state legislatures did not react to combat
this for 20 years and so legal sports betting was almost non-existent across
the country.
The state of New Jersey got active in 2012 with its Sports
Wagering Act and betting on sports could once again take place in its casino
and at its racetracks. It wasn't until 2018 that online sports betting started
when DraftKings went online with a sportsbook. Now there are more than a dozen
websites and apps taking bets in NJ some of which are run by the big UK
firms.
States with legal
Online Casinos
Currently there are only 4 U.S. States that have
taken the opportunity to pass online gambling laws and allow casinos. They are
New Jersey (the leader in the fight for online gambling), Pennsylvania, West
Virginia and Delaware. However Delaware does not allow sports betting but a
further 8 states do. They are Indiana, Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, Oregon,
Rhode Island, Montana and Colorado.
More states are soon to come online
as they have passed the necessary laws. Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia
will all be launching sports betting but as yet no online casinos. Many more
states are moving towards online sports betting but casinos are moving at a
much slower pace although many of the leaders of the new breed of online
casinos in North America are the First Nations group and the Indian
Reservations. |
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