I am sure you will have seen on the news about
the crazy US bill which Bush signed on 13th October 2006. Before
I go into the ins and outs I want to make you aware that there
are still a number of Safe
Slots Jam approved casinos that accept US
Players*.
In the table below the (red)
column shows those casinos which have stopped accepting US players
and the other (green) column shows
the approved casinos which have stated that they will continue
to accept US Players.
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Table showing actions of approved casinos
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Although it seems to be fairly well accepted
that this new law is going to be almost impossible for the US
government to enforce, the casinos that are either publicly listed
or owned by a publicly listed company (and thus have share holders)
are the ones which are choosing not to accept US players.
The reason is simply because their share holders would simply
keep selling shares (and thus ruin the companies) if they continued
after this bill has been passed.
For the privately owned casino companies this
is not a problem and so most of these are expected to continue
accepting US Players for the foreseeable future.
US Payments Methods
Our understanding is that the latest law passed
was aimed at banks and payment processors to restrict payments
to Online Gambling sites. Please visit our forum to view the list
of Payment
Methods Available to US Players. We will endeavour to keep
that list up to date and will add new payment methods as we become
aware of them.
What you can do to help get this
bill over turned
Sign the petition
to Repeal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act this
was started by the APCW.
I'm no expert in these matters but as well as
being a nice guy
I am a member of a number of industry
bodies including the apcw.
The APCW have now made 5 short movie
clips which explains what the American people
can do and how this bill came to be in the first place. They also
now have a weekly newsletter in short clip format called Perspectives
Weekly which you can watch on their site or on You Tube if you
want to keep up to date with the latest developments. You can
view all of this at http://www.apcw.org/law
you can also see a picture of me and J Todd (the owner of the
APCW) on our APCW
page.
* It is our understanding that it may be illegal
to place bets either over the internet or telephone from within
certain states in the USA, these laws are complex but if you wish
to learn more about gambling
laws click here.
** Casino's with ** next to them accept bets
from players in all US States except South Dakota, Nevada, Oregon,
Wisconsin, Washington State, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Illinois,
New York and New Jersey.
