Best live dealer casinos for US players
Background
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repealed and replaced with a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.
[Update February 2013]
Following the Department of Justice's publically stated
changed interpretation of the Wire Wager Act to say that it makes online sports
betting illegal, but not online casino games, a number of US states have
legalized intra-state online casino games. Delaware (2012), Nevada (2013) and
New Jersey (2013) all now have legislation allowing locally licensed operators
to offer online casinos games (online poker only for Nevada) to residents of
that state.
The Delaware and New Jersey laws allow licensed casinos in
that state to offer online versions of the types of games they currently offer
on their casino floors. Live roulette, blackjack and/or baccarat video streamed
from the floors of the Borgata, Tropicana, Trump Taj Mahal or any other Atlantic
City casino may soon be available for play online by New Jersey residents.
Similarly, residents of Delaware may soon be able to play tables on the floors
at Delaware Park, Dover Downs or Harrington Raceway & Casino without leaving
home.
Until then (and for players outside NJ and Delaware for the
foreseeable future) live dealer options are limited to those below.
Best live casino for American players
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. Below are a few casinos with
live dealer games accepting US players.
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