Poker is illegal in the US
 

So poker is illegal. Do you think one day we'll face any criminal charges?

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Only in certain states. and no.

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Yes. I am currently trying to improve my game significantly in order to pay the lawyer bills.

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Really? When did this happen? You should tell those people in Vegas before they get in trouble. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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That is the opinion of the US Government, not hard fact. The basis for their opinion is the Wire Act of 1965, which has at-best tedious ties to online poker. (After all, it was passed before the bloddy thing was even created.)

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No. The Justice Department has made it quite clear that it was not going to prosecute individual players.

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After they jail the million of people who download music illegally we are next.

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Well....there are SOME states where legislation has been passed SPECIFICALLY outlawing online-gambling.

Nevada is one of them believe it or not (and Indiana and Louisiana are a couple of others I believe).

Obviously the big casinos in Nevada have their logic where they would prefer that online-gambling is NOT legal there...so as to encourage th gamblers to get out to the casinos (although many have argued that the MORE you gamble, the more you might be wanting to try it live..something like that).


There was a thread in the B&M forum a few weeks ago.
There was a picture of a guy at the Wynn poker-room in Las Vegas. He had his laptop on a table or desk BEHIND the poker-table. He was standing at the laptop and playing 4-tables there...while also playing the live table of 15/30 in front of him.

Others have said that they have seen this same guy.
Obviously the Wynn actually allows this (which surprised the hell out of me).

I thought it was even more interesting considering the fact that his internet-gambling is technically illegal there (more illegal than in other parts of the country anyway).

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[censored], guess i'll call my boss and get my old job back.
thanks for the head's up.

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uhhh no. poker is legal in AC, Cali, id assume all of NV, FL, and many others

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So playing online poker is illegal in Nevada? I just moved to Las Vegas 2 weeks ago. -_-