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Originally Posted by Logan
Serious question...aren't sportsbooks (besides those located in Las Vegas) illegal?
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It depends who you ask and what their interpretation of the law is. Most people believe that if a law is being broken by making sports bets online it is the Wire Act. The people who feel that it is legal say that it is only illegal to accept a bet online. Not to place one. So you making a sports bet is not illegal, but the site accepting it is breaking a US law.
There are others that say these type of bets fall under state laws and unlike poker, which in many states laws falls into a pretty gray area, sports betting is almost always clearly defined as illegal. I believe that there has only been one guy ever successfully prosecuted for sports betting online. That was a few years ago though and it's possibly more have been since.