US law now makes it tougher to gamble online

[hubie69]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-15/u-s-now-says-all-online-gambling-illegal-not-just-sports-bets

Brick and Mortar going to be the only way forward in the US.

[Emily_Haines]

They're going to have to shut down the internet and ban BTC to make that happen

[thomorino]

Maybe in a 2-3 yearsk there won't be any big immediate impact. Pennsylvania doesn't even have online gambling, New York won't be up until later this year. Other than New Jersey most of the bigger east coast states haven't done shit.

[hubie69]

Just saying beware going forward, make sure you cover your bases. So risky right now.

[jtoler]

was called stupid when I said this would happen obviously if the u.s. would make gambling legal in states this would happen they want their citizens money instead of it going out of the country

[Booya711]

Maybe in a 2-3 yearsk there won't be any big immediate impact. Pennsylvania doesn't even have online gambling, New York won't be up until later this year. Other than New Jersey most of the bigger east coast states haven't done shit.

Big boys are talking here...learn math before you type gain...

[thomorino]

Big boys are talking here...learn math before you type gain...

Fuk off

[thomorino]

Most bettors don't want to go to casinos, these are on computers all day and casinos are often dirty and annoying with long lines. Other than New Jersey their are almost no apps up, Pennsylvania doesn't even have legalized online gambling yet, New York doesn't either.

[WvGambler]

Most bettors don't want to go to casinos, these are on computers all day and casinos are often dirty and annoying with long lines. Other than New Jersey their are almost no apps up, Pennsylvania doesn't even have legalized online gambling yet, New York doesn't either.

I bet nightly from one here in Wv. Have to imagine if we have it here, other states can figure it out.

[thomorino]

I bet nightly from one here in Wv. Have to imagine if we have it here, other states can figure it out.

Its not a logistical issues, its a political one, there is a big debate over competition, taxes, regulation. Pennsylvania didn't even have legalized sports gambling at casino until very recently.

[Hman]

Sports betting was already illegal online thru offshore.

What the change does is now makes sports betting AND ALL forms of online gambling illegal, even in the states where it's now been approved.

Before the law only applied to sports betting.

Now even playing your state lottery online will be jeapordized.

The status of offshore betting remains the same as it has been.

[WvGambler]

Its not a logistical issues, its a political one, there is a big debate over competition, taxes, regulation. Pennsylvania didn't even have legalized sports gambling at casino until very recently.

Neither did we here. Legalized in 2018. This is the future, and it’s coming fast.

[kovacs bar]

They're going to have to shut down the internet and ban BTC to make that happen

they'll throttle the traffic to zero on all offshore IP addies.

Thank the Orange Fatso for the repeal of net neutrality.

[Hman]

From what I understand when they first started pushing for this, is that they were concerned as more and more states were legalizing sports betting, that they would be able to offer it to states other than their own, and even ppl residing in states that hadn't approved it.

[19th Hole]

HMAN = Nipper. "Listen to his master's voice."

[Hman]

The moral if this story is this.

Sheldon Anderson couldn't buy members of Congress who had new opinions of those in the past, who recently overturned PASPA.

So he found ppl he could buy in the Justice Department.

Just read this paragraph:


"A coalition backed by billionaire casino executive Sheldon Adelson lobbied the Justice Department in 2017 to reconsider its 2011 decision that cleared the way for states to allow online gambling."

[bettingman6]

I find it pretty amazing how Sheldon Adelson, the biggest casino mogul in the world, is funding the anti-online gambling movement. He pretends that there’s some kind of huge moral distinction between land casinos and online casinos. In truth, he is afraid online gambling takes away his business.

PS Why doesn’t Adelson get involved in the online gambling business himself, like almost every other casino owner in Vegas has? Is he afraid of getting sued if a 14 year old steals their parent’s credit card and loses a bunch of money gambling online?

[gauchojake]

I knew after about two sentences into the story that Sheldon Adelson's grubby little fingers were all in Trumps ass tickling his prostate to push this through. You want to protest? Never spend a dime in one of his casinos.

[Optional]

Sounds like it will affect online poker more than online sports betting, as states were only allowing locals to use online apps to bet anyway.

[DJK]

Most bettors don't want to go to casinos, these are on computers all day and casinos are often dirty and annoying with long lines. Other than New Jersey their are almost no apps up, Pennsylvania doesn't even have legalized online gambling yet, New York doesn't either.

By seeing how you don't know the difference between their and there, you may not have even graduated high school let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be. A lawyer, that's laughable.

Either that, you are so freaking old that you have become senile, which then you should be in a nursing home playing checkers with the other old folks.

[thomorino]

Sheldon Adelson makes 80% of his money in Asia, mostly in Macau, the US market is just extra to him at this point.

[Yulia74]

sheldon adelson is 85 yrs old, he will die soon

[thomorino]

By seeing how you don't know the difference between their and there, you may not have even graduated high school let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be. A lawyer, that's laughable.

Either that, you are so freaking old that you have become senile, which then you should be in a nursing home playing checkers with the other old folks.

Fuk off

[thomorino]

By seeing how you don't know the difference between their and there, you may not have even graduated high school let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be. A lawyer, that's laughable.

Either that, you are so freaking old that you have become senile, which then you should be in a nursing home playing checkers with the other old folks.

Not that I care but I think a 3rd grader wrote these 2 sentences, its such horrible english, "let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be ", English must be your second language, no one can be this dumb.

[bettingman6]

sheldon adelson is 85 yrs old, he will die soon

Adelson can’t die soon enough.

If God was remotely good, Adelson would have died 85 years ago.

[DJK]

Most bettors don't want to go to casinos, these are on computers all day and casinos are often dirty and annoying with long lines. Other than New Jersey their are almost no apps up, Pennsylvania doesn't even have legalized online gambling yet, New York doesn't either.

Have you actually been in a real casino before to make that statement of "often dirty"?

There is NOT one casino that I have been in that I thought it was dirty and I have been in EVERY freaking casinos in Vegas and in Atlantic City as well as a few in California.

They are all very clean from what I have seen.

[michael777]

By seeing how you don't know the difference between their and there, you may not have even graduated high school let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be. A lawyer, that's laughable.

Either that, you are so freaking old that you have become senile, which then you should be in a nursing home playing checkers with the other old folks.

Don't make fun of old people son,FUK OFF

[DJK]

Not that I care but I think a 3rd grader wrote these 2 sentences, its such horrible english, "let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be ", English must be your second language, no one can be this dumb.

Are other old folks next to you helping you type now?

[DJK]

Don't make fun of old people son,FUK OFF

So, thomorino is old then?

I'm not making a fun of old folks as my parents are very old and I'm also very old.

I'm just trying to find out what thomorino is all about to constantly use fo's non-stop. It's getting old.

[thomorino]

Are other old folks next to you helping you type now?

So, thomorino is old then?

I'm not making a fun of old folks as my parents are very old and I'm also very old.

I'm just trying to find out what thomorino is all about to constantly use fo's non-stop. It's getting old.

Fuk off

[DJK]

Not that I care but I think a 3rd grader wrote these 2 sentences, its such horrible english, "let alone being a lawyer that you claim to be ", English must be your second language, no one can be this dumb.

Why do you keep on lying to yourself by saying "Not that I care" all the time?

If you didn't care, then you wouldn't respond to people's posts. Obviously, you do care and you have a very sensitive heart.

[thomorino]

Why do you keep on lying to yourself by saying "Not that I care" all the time?

If you didn't care, then you wouldn't respond to people's posts. Obviously, you do care and you have a very sensitive heart.

Fuk off

[DJK]

Don't make fun of old people son,FUK OFF

I'm not your son, so fuk off yourself.

[KiDBaZkiT]

I bet nightly from one here in Wv. Have to imagine if we have it here, other states can figure it out.

Buddy you are essentially in one of the original colonies, you got all kinds of indescribable s#!* there you can't even see. Can't even imagine what it feels like to be under the moon over there .

[hubie69]

Feds going to be cracking down hard now that they see the tax money windfall.