Sports Betting Ban

[MoreCowbell]

For those of you who don't know, Congress passed a bill over the weekend that will effectively make it impossible for US citizens to bet on sports over the internet by making it illegal for credit card companies and intermediaries to pass money to international gambling entities.

What can we do now to get around it? Will all of the sites just shut down? Anybody know a good bookie?

This is ridiculous.

[Brunotheboxer]

Originally Posted by gluck75

For those of you who don't know, Congress passed a bill over the weekend that will effectively make it impossible for US citizens to bet on sports over the internet by making it illegal for credit card companies and intermediaries to pass money to international gambling entities.

What can we do now to get around it? Will all of the sites just shut down? Anybody know a good bookie?

This is ridiculous.

yes i heard about this. as far as getting around it the gambling entities will just set up phony corporations (holding co.'s). there is no way that a multi-billion dollar business will just go away because of this. as far as a good bookie you live too far away for the ones i know to take you on as a client. they dont like to travel that far for collections.

[pawarrant]

They hid this in a homeland security bill. I don't gamble on sports, but it is b.s. I think this legislation will prohibit your credit card company from processing a transaction with the gambling sites. I don't know if you guys can use other payment methods to get around it.