Frequently asked questions about
sports betting
Why is it so hard to find sports
betting websites taking U.S. customers?
This question is generally asked by American bettors who are new to gambling
online. Unlike other countries throughout the world and especially Europe,
where sports betting online is indeed legal and regulated, the U.S. has
taken a stance against wagering on the internet. The Congress passed a law
in the late 2006 which forbid the banks and other financial institutions
from transferring money to and from online gambling websites, including
sportsbooks, which although hard to implement, did indeed cripple the
offshore sportsbook industry to some extend. The UK-based publicly traded
online sportsbooks did leave the USA sports betting market right away and
those internet sportsbooks left to service the North American population
were faced with though payment processing and other various issues related
to accepting Americans to bet online at their bookmaking operations. Of
course, there are quite a few betting websites who continue to allow players
from the USA to bet with them on sports, and for informational purpose only
we have gathered the best of them and listed them here. You can find another
list of USA sportsbooks,
including news and reviews.
Will sports betting in the USA be legalized any time soon?
That's a tough one. In our opinion, sports betting in the U.S. will not be
legalized anytime soon, considering that even the land-based sportsbooks are
currently legal at only 4 states in America. Although, some of the other
states are now looking into finding a way to make sports betting in their
states legal, by challenging the interstate gambling act, before the online
sportsbook become legal in the U.S., we have to see a few of the states
legalizing their own sports betting operations first. There are two forms of
wagering on the internet which are considered legal in many states -
lotteries ran by the state itself and online horse racing wagering. But
those are not open to offshore operations at this time. Of course,
prohibition as usual does does nothing as intended, at the end most of the
criminal organizations have been "running numbers" for as long as they have
existed in the USA. A totally different approach is needed in the United
States towards sports betting and online sports betting, but at this time it
would be a miracle if something is done in this direction. Learn more about
arbitrage betting at
the Wiki betting
page.
USA Sports Betting
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