Casino for USA players: myth or reality?
The Government of the United States has spread a public campaign against online casino. For US citizens the adoption of UIGEA was quite a surprise: Barack Obama was more likely expected to make gambling online legal than to put not the first but a heavy stone into the wall separating web-sites accepting US players from the players themselves. Online casino for US players became the bright cloth which they could see but could not cease.
One of the main problems about the Act except for its actual existence of course remains its obscure definition of the whole matter of “illegal gambling games”. The Act does not reach “fiction” from NFL (National Football League) Fantasy Football, for instance. As NFL claimed the game wasn’t based on a pure luck though it remained gamble. The game required possession of a number of skills.
So as we can see anyone can take the law as he wishes. But accepting USA players has really become a difficult thing for many online casinos.
Since 2001 gambling online has been a bright illustration of a severe struggle of the local authorities with casinos which risk to accept USA players. The United States is eager to put an end to online gaming.
At the same time Great Britain tries to do everything possible to make it profitable and legal business. The USA gets two laws against gambling online which web-sites are forced to accept. US players are not even asked. One of the laws prohibits organizing casino online on the territory of the United States; the other forced US operators to stop transferring payments to the casinos’ accounts. Since 2007 American payment systems (E-gold and others) stopped payments for online casinos.
As a result of this struggle against gambling online American Congress pressed basic search engines of the USA, such as Google or Yahoo very effectively, demanding to ban any advertisement about casino online.
One of such companies started a juridical procedure against the American Government considering it to be a law violation against the freedom of speech. However the suit was dismissed after a number of trials. If to speak about the future of casino online it seems to be rather flourishing. A number of web-sites accepting us, players, function at the moment. Click on www.jackpotcapital.com for instance to see that the things remained unchanged. Software companies like MicroGaming or Cryptologic continue to do everything to help online casinos to accept us, players, as it had been earlier.
