{"id":287,"date":"2010-01-19T00:14:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/?page_id=287"},"modified":"2010-01-19T00:14:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T04:14:15","slug":"gambling-enforcement-act","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/gambling-enforcement-act","title":{"rendered":"Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Unlawful  Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006<\/h3>\n<p>If you  are an online poker or online casino player in the United States then  it is important for you to understand the Unlawful Internet Gambling  Enforcement Act (UIGEA) that was passed by the Bush administration in  2006.<\/p>\n<p>Attached  at the last minute to the SAFE Port Act, the UIGEA is an act that  puts limits on Internet gambling.  Contrary to popular belief online  gambling is not outlawed in most of the United States.  However, the  UIGEA did put restrictions and regulations on financial institutions  and online gambling sites when it comes to making deposits at online  casinos and poker sites.  As a result, many online gambling sites  have left the US market.<\/p>\n<p>The  Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act states that financial  institutions, such as credit card companies, may not transfer funds  to &#8220;unlawful&#8221; online gambling sites.  It is still perfectly legal  for these institutions to transfer funds to &#8220;lawful&#8221; online  gambling sites.  The reason, however, that many sites have withdrawn  from the US market completely is that they do not want to risk  breaking the laws that are in place due to the UIGEA.<\/p>\n<p>If you  are living in the United States and want to gamble online you don&#8217;t  have to be discouraged.  There are still a large number of online  casinos and online poker sites that are open to US players.  These  gambling websites are regulated and legal and accept a variety of  payment methods including credit cards, ewallets, cash and bank  transfers and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 If you are an online poker or online casino player in the United States then it is important for you to understand the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) that was passed by the Bush administration in 2006. Attached at the last minute to the SAFE Port Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepokerpractice.com\/poker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}