USA restrictions

[savelapuck]

"As stated, now that Bovada has effectively banned players from four states, every major online poker room bans players from certain states. In a casualty of the Bovada developments, new players from Washington State currently have no significant online poker options due to the very harsh laws which actually make it a felony to play online poker in the state (with the same potential penalties as rape)."

Is this old news and I just haven't come across it yet? Kinda made me sick to read that..

[ssuglia]

The states involved had been banned from other sites as well. I remember when Pokerstars one day stopped letting players from the state of Washington play. Doesn't really change a whole lot.

Most of the sites are letting players play if they already had accounts, but won't allow for new accounts to be made by players living in those states.

[MrPokerVerse]

Was able to play there on an exsisting account. Don't know about withdraws though. Only state I heard of being banned there was Maryland due to the lawsuit from that state.

[savelapuck]

I'm referring to the part of the post that is bold and underlined....

[ssuglia]

I'm referring to the part of the post that is bold and underlined....

Yes, that part is old news. The state of Washington has had that law on the books for a couple of years now.

[MrPokerVerse]

I'm referring to the part of the post that is bold and underlined....

Washington state is one of the most difficult states to play poker in, namely online poker. It’s actually a class C felony to play poker online and if you end up getting caught, you could be fined up to $10,000 and up to 5 years in prison.

Lock Poker for play money is all I found for new accounts. Looks like its been there for a couple years. Hope other west coast states dont follow suit!

[sunnywest74]

Wow a felony for playin online poker lol... same charges as rape damn Well seems like you get raped on most of these poker sites anyway lol.... specially carbon hea haw

[bmeelneg]

The WA law is kinda new around a year or two if my memory is working ... KY was the worst for awhile but even there it don't think its a "felony".

Gotta look up the WA now since I was living in Seattle for a few years around the late 90's/early 00's and poker laws were friendly then.

Here's a link ... Washington State Supreme Court Upholds Internet Gambling Law

[twinkies777]

a felony that is totally rediculous.

[bishking]

I don't see that ever happening here in California. We're to democratic around here. Our policy is not tight ass like some of the conservative ones. We're open to new opportunity.