Against the backdrop of legal uncertainty and restrictions
placed on US financial institutions processing of American resident's online gambling transactions
by the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), most large
European based betting organizations are currently not accepting US player
accounts. UIGEA was passed by the Bush administration in late 2006 and
since then most large brand gambling organizations have discontinued their US
facing operations until such time as UIGEA is
repealed and replaced with a
licensing and regulatory regime. For a more detailed discussion of UIGEA and its implications for players, visit our legal issues page.
Many online casinos still do accept US player accounts,
highlighting the failure of UIGEA to bring about an effective prohibition to
online gambling in the United States. However, in the live casino niche,
US facing operators are not so easy to find. And while there are few out
there, its fair to say that they fall well short of the quality of offering
available to players from the rest of the world in many respects, including
reputation, size and compliance with probity requirements of a rigorous regulatory
authority.
With respect to US facing live casino, 'best' becomes more a question of
which casinos accept US player accounts, rather than any consideration of how
all the various regional criteria stack up. Here are two live dealer
casinos accepting US players.
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