Legality of Online Poker

[hackers238]

haha thats hilarious while being an awesome plan. But even if an American recieved a "gift" of the rest of the winnings, they would still have to pay taxes, no? Unless of course that 100M was under the table...

[GeoffM]

Tell ya what, I'll smuggle the money across the border to you free of charge in $1 million increments, a few times a week. I'll buy a house in Niagara Falls and drop it off to you at any desired location .

[2Tone]

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What scared me the most is not that somehow the cops would come knocking on my door, but the possibility of it being harder and harder to fund accounts.

"3. Several large banks, including Citibank and Bank of America, may end EFTs to and from "gambling" sites, including poker, citing among other things money-laundering concerns and the Patriot Act."

It's still a maybe, but that would cripple IGM-Pay, which would really suck. I wonder how NetTeller would be classified.

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[jdiana86]

I use IGM-pay also. Hopefully it will keep working. Otherwise its drive to stop and shop and send out a WU(western union)

[lightfungus]

Glad this hasnt happened yet.

[kmb13592]

About a month ago there was a 60 Minutes piece about online gambling about a month ago. It was somewhat of an investigation about why the United States does nothing about online gambling even though it is completely illegal. So I do believe it illegal but I don't think you have anything to worry about.