Above, you see all of our VIP offers on the poker sites that allows poker players from the United States. The Act UIGEA which most certainly everybody heard of does not allow online poker rooms and online casinos to receive money or give money to poker players from the United States. Below we explain more about this law.
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act - UIGEA.
President Bush signed the bill UIGEA on October 13 2006. The law is not a law against poker games online. It is a law that doesn’t allow online poker rooms and online casinos to cash out or in to credit institutions and banks in the United States. The
Poker player is not criminal beacuase of the UIGEA but it only works as a law against online poker rooms for the money in and out. For most of the major U.S. online poker rooms and game portals became the law an abrupt end for them. Bringing money in and out is still allowed in some online poker rooms.
In those online poker rooms which had a large number of poker players from the U.S., this was a hard strike; some disappeared completely, while others lost much of its pokerplayerbase. For these players, this was not the end; they went instead to other online poker sites that allowed poker players from America. This meant that some sites got a huge lift and those online poker rooms were of course those that still allowed U.S. poker players. There are still a lot of online poker rooms where it is allowed to play online poker on in other words.
Of course, there are many who are not agreeing to this law, which is very understandable. But it’s not only online poker players who disagrees, but it’s also many politicians who are against the law UIGEA, there is still difficult to say what will happen with the Act UGIEA, but so far online poker players from the U.S. will have to satisfy with the sites which allows them to play there. Large online poker rooms such as Full Tilt Poker, Poker Nordica and Cake Poker and others, allows poker players from the United States. There are not as many online poker rooms to choose from now as before the 13th of October 2006 but there is still many online poker rooms remaining where U.S. poker players can play online poker on.