Offshore Casinos Still Welcoming US Players & Payments
For many months now, I’ve been looking at online play for US gamblers and focused a bit on the payment processors. The decline in gaming from the new legislation and downfall of several big online payment processors has shrunk the US market substantially. Down but by no means out of the game.
Take a look around the web and you will still find great places for US players to gamble and each week more payment options seem to open up despite the US gambling ban.
I still get great email and blog connections on both casinos and payment systems accepting US players. As in the movie Wall Street, Gordon Gecko says, “Greed, for lack of a better word, is good, Greed is right, Greed works. …” That phrase also works for online casino action! 
US players and offshore casinos still have some open options for linking up. Its reported that Slots Village (owned and managed by Winward Gaming Group – Costa Rica, parent company Winward Hall Ltd Ireland) is sill accepting US players and offer eWallet Express for their convenience. They have no problem with US play. (click on image to the left)
UltimateBet is showing no slowdown for US play. They offer numerous deposit options including ePassporte.
AbsolutePoker which is a huge web site with tons of great games seems to be going strong. In fact direct from their web today, “VISA Recommended for US poker players” As I said back in January, Demand for Internet gambling is far too large for US players to just throw in the towel.
The business of payment processing for e-gaming merchants has never been more important. While the US attempted crackdown has created waves, there remain existing and NEW solutions for those US players wanting to play and wager on-line. Our cashier system, DoughFlow, is used by some of the merchant sites mentioned above.
The players’ rights are at stake. Public and private businesses who have invested and built up the proper infrastructure to support e-gaming are at risk from a single foreign entity that has the potential to unilaterally force their hypocritical ideology.
If your favorite e-gaming site can’t take your on-line payment, then tell them to get DoughFlow.
The film “Wall Street” starring the socialist Michael Douglas presented cartoon caricatures meant to show working class men as noble and those who provide capital as evil. Ivan Boesky, certainly no friend to any of the men he wore a wire with and ratted out to the feds, was the model for Gordon Gecko. I saw Boesky at Rice University make his “greed is good speech.”
It would be better to say that self-interest is good. Working for their own self-interest, the offshore casinos are bringing in lots of American customers, giving them great service and betting opportunities. There’s nothing wrong with ambition, self-interest, and profit.
Greed, however, is wrong. Greed is what motivates the worthless slime in Congress who passed the “Safe Harbors” act with protection for the mafia land based casinos. Greed is the shameful cause of corruption and abuse of power by a Congress that has no constitutional power to limit online gambling by Americans.