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    Is online gambling illegal in the USA? I kno people who do it...but how and is it really that bad?

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    Default Re: Online Gambling in USA

    It's legal. Any server has to be located in a country where gaming is legal.

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    Default Re: Online Gambling in USA

    so the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act isn't in effect or doesn't matter anymore? really confused and getting varying answers online.

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    Default Re: Online Gambling in USA

    http://www.gambling-law-us.com/Feder...mbling-ban.htm

    It says that it doesn't criminalize betting, just that is is ilegal for a website to take bets.

    Also, the US does not have jurisdiction over websites that operate outside the US so the act only applies to websites where the company is operation on US soil.

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    Default Re: Online Gambling in USA

    thx for the clarification.

    so..do you recommend any sites for blackjack?

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    Nope. I had friends from many years ago who lost THOUSANDS playing online blackjack. It's addictive. I would recommend using a hand held electric black jack game that costs 5 to 10 dollars. Its the same as playing online but you don't lose thousands of dollars. Then, when you get good, go to a real casino with one hundred dollars and play the five dollar hands and never bet more than 5 dollars. If you make 200 dollars, then place the original hundred in your wallet and play with the new 100 dollars. Keep doing this until your wallet is about to burst or you've lost your original hundred dollars.

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    Default Re: Online Gambling in USA

    Quote Originally Posted by GentlemanX View Post
    It's legal. Any server has to be located in a country where gaming is legal.
    Perhaps, but getting your money in and out could be more of a bitch than its worth, and isn't the whole point of gambling to try to win money.
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    If one just wants to practice at blackjack, there are number of these sites which offer play money tables. You can get casino game software or a handheld unit fairly cheap.

    As for trying to parlay that experience into making money in a live casino (or even an online one) forget it. Casinos have enacted so many countermeasures against card counting anymore that its nearly impossible to make consistent money at it.

    The only place to really make money in a casino anymore is the poker room, and you have to be good at that in order to do it.
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

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    Default Re: Online Gambling in USA

    Quote Originally Posted by GentlemanX View Post
    http://www.gambling-law-us.com/Feder...mbling-ban.htm

    It says that it doesn't criminalize betting, just that is is ilegal for a website to take bets.

    Also, the US does not have jurisdiction over websites that operate outside the US so the act only applies to websites where the company is operation on US soil.
    They get around it very easily by locking up the means to pay and get paid.

    Try MOVING money between yourself and an off shore gaming site.

    If your financial institution is located in the U.S., which most of ours are, you'll find it near impossible to get PAID OFF if you win. And if you can't get paid when you win what's the point?

    So in order to play you have to have an offshore financial account that you can pipe into a local account back here in the states. Its all too stupid to be bothered with.

    I play poker in local games that are, for the most part, friendly. There is a whole underground once you tap into it that operates in the $300-$500 or so to sit down area. I make a good buck with my skills and get paid in hard, cold, cash when I chip out.
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    BTW, while we are on the subject, is it needed to point out the obvious: That it is just possible that if you are willing to judge the worth of someone simply by what you read on a website about them it might say a whole hell of a lot more about you than it says about the person you are judging?

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