WE WANT TO PLAY THE GAME!
The situation around online casino for US players is getting worse. American political leaders continued tightening their policy towards online gambling industry and American Congress adopted new laws that made web-sites accepting US players face more complications.
A couple of years ago federal servants even arrested two British businessmen – David Carruthers who ran online gambling company BETonSPORTS and Peter Dicks, a chairman in the board of Sportingbet, when they landed in the USA to make a transfer at the airport. American prosecutors accused Carruthers and Peter Dicks of accepting USA players with their bets though their companies were legal in the country where they had been registered. The actions of Dicks and Carruthers broke the law of Louisiana where it was not possible to accept USA players who used their credit cards to pay for making their bets.
After these arrests Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was adopted in 2006. And though the new law did not make online casino for US citizens illegal it took away the ability of banks and companies providing payment cards to transfer money to online gambling sites and bookmaker offices. These actions forced some casinos online and bookmakers to refuse to accept us, players from America.
As Congress did not prohibit other forms of gambling games in the USA the attacks at online casinos meant something more than “stimulation” for illegal bookmakers on the black market. Traditionally casinos in America “were fundamentally against” gambling online according to Holley Thompson, a representative of American Gaming Association, the main lobby of gaming industry. Casino for USA players had every right to exist but without “proper control and legislative acts who was going to protect children from gambling addiction?”
June, 1 only added fuel to the flames when Barrack Obama adopted Title VIII of the Act also known as the UIGEA and every hope to get casinos online legal as many players hoped to hear from the new President of America crashed like a crystal vase.
Debates and dialogues about making playing online legal or illegal continue but no one seems to pay attention to the needs of players – the Government is busy controlling income of gambling business, social organizations – watching kids staying away from casinos online and only players are left aside the whole matter. Luckily enough there still function web-sites (www.jackpotcapital.com for instance) accepting us, players from the US, who have the rights but don’t have possibilities to use them according to the law.
