Archive for March, 2006

Does Poker Stars allow you to gamble online in the USA?

Sunday, March 12th, 2006
gambling law
The RAINMAN asked:


I know Poker Stars allows its player to gamble online, but I heard congress passed an online gambling law which prohibits online gambling because people are unable to validate the age of the player, so if they’re minors they can’t play. Can Americans still gamble online? Specifically at Poker Stars?

Jessie

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Why is online Gambling illegal?

Saturday, March 4th, 2006
gambling law
ff9_terra asked:


Is it because the government cares for its citizens? if so, why would gambling in the physical world be legal then?

My thought into all of this is that powerful people who control the big casinos realized that they could be losing $ this way and people will stop coming to their hotels/casinos. So they invested money to convince the government to pass a law to make it illegal to gamble online. If you think my theory is right, what do you think of it ? do you think as americans we can allow for such actions to be imposed on us? I’m not a gambler myself, but to see that some rich people can create laws and make a perfectly unharmful activity illegal for their own good bothers me as it tells me that people lost their freedom here. If ****** had billions of dollars, would the ***** populate the streets?

Constance

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