Online gambling isn't illegal in the US, but financing it has been illegal since the SAFE Port Act[1] passed. Poker sites were still getting around the provisio

Online gambling isn't illegal in the US, but financing it has been illegal since the SAFE Port Act[1] passed. Poker sites were still getting around the provision by hiding the source of transactions through payment processors. The recent shutdown of poker sites to US customers was actually a shutdown of these payment processors used to fund US accounts. 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_Port_Act#Internet_gambling_provisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_Port_Act#Internet_gambling...