In light of recent legal developments in the U.S., is it still possible to make a living at online poker?

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It's Legal, but banks are distancing themselves Ed Brayton, a blogger at Seed's ScienceBlogs, seems to have a soft spot for poker and has talked at length about it at various times on his blog, so since he's done the research, I'll recount what I've learned. One of his posts -- here -- lays it out: online poker is not illegal; the only illegal online gambling is sports betting. Unfortunately, it doesn't matter because (1) the Department of Justice can go after online poker players and the banks that help them fund accounts regardless of the subsequent court outcome and (2) because of the hassle, payment houses are less willing to be the conduit for an online poker player's stake.

Legal or not, the fact that you may have to fight the DOJ in court is a pretty strong agent of dissuasion. So is it possible to make a living at online poker? If you have a reliable method of getting your money in and out of the system, yes.

But that's drying up, and the poker houses themselves no longer accept new accounts from the US, so it's probably not possible to begin making a living at online poker. So if you can't use your bank, or paypal, or firepay, or neteller to fund a poker stake, what can you do? TeeSeeJay's Recommendations Doyle Brunson's Super System II Amazon List Price: $34.95 Used from: $17.49 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 55 reviews) .

H.R. 4411 109th: Internet Gambling Prohibition and Enforcement Act To prevent the use of certain payment instruments, credit cards, and fund transfers for unlawful Internet gambling, Sec. 1084. Use of a communication facility to transmit bets or wagers; criminal penalties `(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, being engaged in a gambling business, knowingly-- `(1) uses a communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or to or from any place outside the jurisdiction of any nation with respect to any transmission to or from the United States, of-- `(A) bets or wagers; `(B) information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers; or `(C) a communication, which entitles the recipient to receive money or credit as a result of bets or wagers, or for information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers; or `(2) accepts, in connection with the transmission of a communication in interstate or foreign commerce, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or to or from any place outside the jurisdiction of any nation with respect to any transmission to or from the United States of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers-- `(A) credit, or the proceeds of credit, extended to or on behalf of another (including credit extended through the use of a credit card); `(B) an electronic fund transfer or funds transmitted by or through a money transmitting business, or the proceeds of an electronic fund transfer or money transmitting service, from or on behalf of the other person; `(C) any check, draft, or similar instrument which is drawn by or on behalf of the other person and is drawn on or payable through any financial institution; or `(D) the proceeds of any other form of financial transaction as the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may prescribe by regulation which involves a financial institution as a payor or financial intermediary on behalf of or for the benefit of the other person, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

`(b) Nothing in this section prohibits-- `(1) the transmission of information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers for use in news reporting if such transmission does not solicit or provide information for the purpose of facilitating or enabling the placing or receipt of bets or wagers in a jurisdiction where such betting is illegal; `(2) the transmission of information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers from a State or foreign country where such betting or wagering is permitted under Federal, State, tribal, or local law into a State or foreign country in which such betting on the same event is permitted under Federal, State, tribal, or local law; or `(3) the interstate transmission of information relating to a State-specific lottery between a State or foreign country where such betting or wagering is permitted under Federal, State, tribal, or local law and an out-of-State data center for the purposes of assisting in the operation of such State-specific lottery. `(c) Nothing in this section prohibits the use of a communication facility for the transmission of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, if-- `(1) at the time the transmission occurs, the individual or entity placing the bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, the gambling business, and, subject to section 1084(b)(3), any individual or entity acting in concert with a gambling business to process the bets or wagers are physically located in the same State, and for class II or class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, are physically located on Indian lands within that State; `(2) the State or tribe has explicitly authorized such bets and wagers, the State or tribal law requires a secure and effective location and age verification system to assure compliance with age and location requirements, and the gambling business and any individual or entity acting in concert with a gambling business to process the bets or wagers complies with such law; `(3) the State has explicitly authorized and licensed the operation of the gambling business and any individual or entity acting in concert with a gambling business to process the bets and wagers within its borders or the tribe has explicitly authorized and licensed the operation of the gambling business and any individual or entity acting in concert with a gambling business to process the bets and wagers, on Indian lands within its jurisdiction; `(4) with respect to class II or class III gaming, the game and gambling business complies with the requirements of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; and `(5) with respect to class III gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the game is authorized under, and is conducted in accordance with, the respective Tribal-State compact of the Tribe having jurisdiction over the Indian lands where the individual or entity placing the bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, the gambling business, and any individual or entity acting in concert with a gambling business to process those bets or wagers are physically located, and such Tribal-State compact expressly provides that the game may be conducted using a communication facility to transmit bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers. For purposes of this subsection, the intermediate routing of electronic data constituting or containing all or part of a bet or wager, or all or part of information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, shall not determine the location or locations in which a bet or wager is transmitted, initiated, received or otherwise made; or from or to which a bet or wager, or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers, is transmitted.

`(d) Nothing in this section creates immunity from criminal prosecution under any laws of any State or tribe. `(e) Nothing in this section authorizes activity that is prohibited under chapter 178 of title 28, United States Code. `(f) When any common carrier, subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission, is notified in writing by a Federal, State, tribal, or local law enforcement agency, acting within its jurisdiction, that any communication facility furnished by it is being used or will be used by its subscriber for the purpose of transmitting or receiving gambling information in interstate or foreign commerce, within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or to or from any place outside the jurisdiction of any nation with respect to any transmission to or from the United States in violation of Federal, State, tribal, or local law, it shall discontinue or refuse, the leasing, furnishing, or maintaining of such facility, after reasonable notice to the subscriber, but no damages, penalty or forfeiture, civil or criminal, shall be found against any common carrier for any act done in compliance with any notice received from a law enforcement agency.

Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prejudice the right of any person affected thereby to secure an appropriate determination, as otherwise provided by law, in a Federal court or in a State, tribal, or local tribunal or agency, that such facility should not be discontinued or removed, or should be restored. '. Basically, online better is verbotten and unlawful.

Sources: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4411 .

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