IGC says: AMERICANS STILL FREE TO GAMBLE ONLINE

[Simmo!]

Players will have to assess these carefully to ensure they are using credible companies, in decent and regulated jurisdictions and that's one of the reasons why this silly legislation has the potential to make American players more vulnerable - where there is a demand there is always a supplier.

Yes I read that somewhere else too and you have to agree. This legislation has put US gamblers at more risk than they ever were. the Act purports to help stop problem gambling, but it proves the US government either don't understand problem gambling, or are not in the slightest bit interested. A problem gambler will find a way to gamble and this Act has only helped to ensure that many of the "safer" options are no longer available to them.

[jetset]

On a daily basis now expert articles are appearing where specialists and lawyers alike are coming forward to point out the hypocrisy of this bill's carve-outs, the likely result of these and the potential for 'accidental consequences' to American players. It really is an ill-conceived initiative on the part of Frist, Kyl et al.

[AussieDave]

He said PayPal might get back into the business of funding online gambling.

Paypal already allows people located in the UK and a couple of Countries in EU to fund their gambling accounts.

I'd suggest that US players don't hold their breath on this one. It aint going to happen.

[AussieDave]

I think it's fair to say & also point out that this industry has a knack of rolling with the punches, it has manage to do it so far & imo will continue to do so.

Changes that forced its hand into taking action (not in chronological order):

* Paypal
* Western Union
* Visa, MasterCard

As I'm not a US player, I'm not sure what happen to Prepaid ATM. I could speculate that the DOJ got to them too. As with a number of these payment systems (eg PPATM, NT, C2P,MB & so on) they're been set-up primarily to fund gambling account & visa versa.

Take 900Pay, another work around for the US player.

Personally I wouldn't stress. As Spear, Jet, CM & others have pointed out, it's not about you as US player who is affected by this bill, it's the processing companies & maybe affiliates too.

Believe me if there is a will the gambling industry will find a way around this...

If you haven't hooked up to CM's latest webcast, check it out, its got some pretty good info about this bill.

[soflat]

Personally I wouldn't stress. As Spear, Jet, CM & others have pointed out, it's not about you as US player who is affected by this bill, it's the processing companies & maybe affiliates too.

Well we got our accounts closed at the casinos we liked to play at so it did affect us. I'm not going to play somewhere that I don't want to just because they are the only guys taking my money now.

Right now there are exactly two casino groups that I both want to play at and that will take my dollars.