Casino City's iGaming Pocket Directory - 2015 Edition

110 Sponsored by Casino City’s iGaming Pocket Directory JURISDICTIONS united states of hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and assets, the sale of Full Tilt to PokerStars, the closing of Absolute/UB and the withdrawal of PokerStars and Full Tilt from the US market. In addition to shutting down the US operations of the most popular online poker sites, the DOJ indictments convinced many operators to shut down their US- facing operations, clearing the way for a strictly regulated domestic marketplace to emerge in the US. Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey stepped into the void in the marketplace and began regulating online gaming. In 2013, Nevada – which already had standing online gaming legislation – passed into law language that allows it to sign compacts with other states to build player liquidity. Essentially, if Nevada signs a compact with a state, players on Nevada online poker networks will have access to players on poker networks in the other state, and vice versa. In June 2012, Delaware authorized online gambling in response to expanded brick- and-mortar casino gambling in Maryland and Pennsylvania. And in February 2013, New Jersey signed into law online gambling legislation in an effort to help Atlantic City casinos. Delaware’s online casino is operated by the Delaware Lottery, with players signing up through local casinos and racinos. New Jersey’s online casinos are operated by casinos running brick-and-mortar operations in Atlantic City. Internet gambling on horse racing is permitted by the Interstate Horse Racing Act in states that have chosen to regulate such wagering. There is also a specific exemption for horse racing carved out in the UIGEA, which was passed in 2006. The United States enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) in fall of 2006. The law makes it illegal for financial institutions to facilitate payment transactions between offshore gambling operations and American customers. The law says nothing about it being illegal for a person located in the US to gamble on an Internet site. The unintended consequence of the UIGEA is that it has made payment processing for licensed and regulated online gaming in New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware much more difficult. Operators are still working with banks and credit card companies in an effort to smooth out the payment process. The states of Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington and Louisiana have all passed legislation that specifically prohibits unauthorized forms of Internet gambling. All forms of gambling are illegal in Hawaii and Utah.