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Originally Posted by primelord
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.
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Thanks for the explanation. My first thought is if there's any way to bend or twist a law to make it illegal, its illegal, and everyone is screwed.
Now, how does everything tie in to the "illegal to accept bets, not place them" when the person placing them isn't of legal age to gamble in their country (like I did a few years back)?