Is Online Poker Part of the Wire Act?
Online Poker isn't part of the Wire Act!
So you think just because you play online poker and you're a
US citizen, you'll be excluded because of the Wire Act?
Well, sit tight because many have said that online poker
doesn't have anything to do with this act and that US
players are getting banned for no reason whatsoever.
Allyn Jaffray Shulman who is a respected American legal
figure analyzed the wire act as it pertains to online poker
and has come to the conclusion that it's out dated. The
statute, which was introduced to disrupt the financing of
organized crime only prohibits sports betting and NOT online
gambling, poker or anything else.
She also says that legislators themselves do not fully
believe that the statute prohibits online gambling activity.
They are just viewing it as criminal and going from there
which in every essence, is not the legal way to go about
this. The influence of the Wire Act, however outdated, has
seen the introduction of the UIGEA which specifically
targets the transfer of funds between citizens of the US and
online gambling companies overseas. In other words, online
poker was not within the reach of the Wire Act's
prohibition. The District Court of Appeal agreed with
Duvall's ruling that the 1961 Wire Act does not apply to
online poker. |
