What’s the deal with online poker in the United States?

Many of you may believe it is currently illegal to gamble online, including online poker, in the United States. When did this come into effect? Ironically on (Friday) October 13th, 2006 perhaps the most un-luckiest day of the year President George Bush signed a bill that tightened security measures from online gambling including everything from poker to bingo. This bill also put heavy restrictions on banking institutions that knowingly transfer funds to such people or businesses.

But the truth about this bill is that it is technically not illegal to participate in online casinos in most of the US. In fact only 11 states have laws against this including Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana (felony to play online poker), Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington (felony to play online poker) and Wisconsin that disallows gambling online. So why is it still difficult for people in the other 39 states to gamble online? The truth of the matter is that when the news of the bill broke nearly all of the available online casinos dropped US members and users.

Online gamblers don’t fear! There is still several sights including some great online poker sites that still accommodate US users. A few to check out are Absolute Poker or Full Tilt Poker.