Online Casinos — Link between Year 08 — Part One

For some consecutive years yet the world public’s eyes are closed on the USA and this country fighting against online casinos. As you remember, in 2006 the Congress has used the Outlawed Internet Playing Funding Prohibition Act (UIGEA). According to this Act they would have passed within 270 days a supplementary explanation on the application thereof for the banks, but such details appeared in 08 only. If they are implemented the usa banks will have the pain in the ass looking for the transactions from online casinos (cheques, bank transfers). The banks should absolutely fulfill the requirements already in the end of the year 2009 but most of analysts believe that this would not happen, that is really too much contrary to the background of the banking crisis. Meanwhile the us online bettors a cure for Obama and democrats to cancel the known UIGEA. The have tried to pass the Act through the committee in 08 and failed, only one election was missing. But now they’re going to make one more try and there is a hope that this one is often more successful. Nevertheless you need to not yet count on a quick cancellation of the Act, much more for the online casinos (we have an overabundance chance in case of the poker), though a miracle can happen.

This year brought a new problem and again from the USA. The Governor of Kentucky State brought the action against 141 playing sites to the court of his State. All slot gacor sites were charged with infringement of the Internet Playing Act, they received the American (Kentucky occupants in particular). The foundation thereof was the try to protect nys lottery from online competitors as the lottery generates profits and online casinos and poker-rooms don’t. The worst thing was that under this process nys authorities should have had a chance to use website names of all such 141 sites (among them almost all Microgaming casinos and RTGs, plus the largest poker-rooms). Most of great url of your website registrars are situated in america and they were forced to obey (at least one of them, the GoDaddy, confirmed its readiness to cooperate). As a result, the court gave a month to the sites to get rid of the bettors from Kentucky State and they were forced to do so. Generally one can say that the judgment was made in favour of nys authorities, but taking into account “the cooperation” the punitive measures just weren’t taken. Some sites u . s . and raised the claim to the Court of Selling point of nys which stated that the areas just weren’t “gambling facilities” and they cannot be gripped under the State law. This resolution was made already in the beginning of the year 2009 but the Governor is going to appeal contrary to the resolution at the court of appellate legal system, we’ll see where it will lead. And now let’s observe how the online casino industry is going under conditions of similar press.

Let me start from the Microgaming, the largest and the most known software supplier. This year can hardly be named the most successful but it can hardly be named failing as well. Let me remind you that the Microgaming didn’t stop accepting US players but understandably advantage the whole casino group with such software became a insolvent in the beginning of the year. Fortunately, all casinos were redeemed by the other group so your bettors didn’t suffer. In the beginning and in the middle of the year an “optimization” as well as merging and takeover trend came. Several groups u . s . their casinos to stand contrary to the crisis more efficiently, at that some casinos closed (the bettors moved to the rest of them). For instance, a well-known Trident Group stopped existing, two of three casinos thereof closed. But by the end of the year the situation became stable and new casinos with this software were dynamically opening all over the year. As a result for the year a number of casinos with the Microgaming software didn’t practically change.