Supreme Court Overturns Ban on Sports Betting

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Supreme Court Overturns PASPA, Paving Way for States to Determine Sports Betting Legality

“The legalization of sports gambling requires an important policy choice, but the choice is not ours to make,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. “Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own.”


States will be able to decide for themselves if they want to permit sports betting. This is HUGE news for states who have been blocked from offering sports betting until now.



It is yet to be seen if this opens any doors for US poker players down the line - but it gives us a bit of hope where there has been very little.
 
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PASPA should be put to the electorate if their was true democracy with modern technology votes on issues like this and many others should be easy to do.
Their is to much hype about electorate votes gay Marraige and abortion for example in ireland but these issues and 100s like them should be put to electorate in an online cheaper format than the hype and circus and shady behind closed door decisions that are made regularly by people who are towing a party line trying to avoid scandal at all costs and looking out for number 1.
Some laws in countries today were drafted in 1700s or 1800s and need updating.
Members of parliament or senators have to draft laws but unconstitutional laws without the people having a vote is not right.
 
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Will this effect POKER? Would be nice if POKER is included.

Sippy :)
 
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You had a ban on sports betting also????? Damn, you have some weird rules. You can find weed legal, anyone can buy enough guns to start a war by himself but you cant make a bet on sports? Thats ridiculous!

Anyway, lets hope after sports betting, poker follows.
 
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A major breakthrough in the socialization of games. While there are many obstacles, I believe that people's minds about games are changing, and it can be very good for governments, because they will certainly win with taxes.
 
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You had a ban on sports betting also????? Damn, you have some weird rules. You can find weed legal, anyone can buy enough guns to start a war by himself but you cant make a bet on sports? Thats ridiculous!

Anyway, lets hope after sports betting, poker follows.

This is a little different. We don’t have a federal ban on online poker. Each state can legalize it if they want to. It’s just that most states don’t care enough to pass legislation.

Sports betting was completely illegal in the US except Nevada.
 
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This is a little different. We don’t have a federal ban on online poker. Each state can legalize it if they want to. It’s just that most states don’t care enough to pass legislation.

Sports betting was completely illegal in the US except Nevada.

Well, thanks for clearing this up. Now dont get me wrong, but that makes things even worse on the "absurd rules" then:D:D
 
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Great ruling.Hope to see the U.S. guys back soon, maybe some commonsense will return with them and get rid of all the chancers who wouldn't recognize poker if they tripped over it.
 
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This is great news. I'm quite positive it will have an effect on poker down the line, and hopefully will happen soon.
 
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wouldn't it be wonderful if we could play online poker in the U.S. I'm not convinced Maine would allow it even if they had the choice. ill keep hoping it would be so much easier than it is now.
 
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An 18 year old can buy an assault rifle but GOD FORBID he bets $20 on a football game.
 
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Ol Man Hatch is already promising to fix this afore he goes away.
 
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This does help sweeten the pot for states that have resisted thinking just poker would not be lucrative alone. With sports betting added to the menu I can see a lot of states at least considering both. Just not anytime soon. Step forward IMHO. :) NOT good news for Nevada. :(


God bless. :cool:



The Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for states to legalize sports betting, striking down a 1992 federal law that had prohibited most states from authorizing sports betting.

The court said the federal law violated constitutional principles limiting the federal government from controlling state policy. It unconstitutionally required states to prohibit sports betting under their own laws.​


 
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Well things just got interesting in the USA

The mafia is probably not to happy.
 
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Never even mind poker legalization following in the wake over this, I'll be happy to even be able to do sports betting! It's just about the only way I can actually become invested in the outcome of a sport, lol.
 
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This is a little different. We don’t have a federal ban on online poker. Each state can legalize it if they want to. It’s just that most states don’t care enough to pass legislation.

Sports betting was completely illegal in the US except Nevada.


What does the online poker lobby look like compared the casino, parimutuel racing lobby?
 
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Wow that's great news and a very positive step to making poker a legal everyday opportunity for us citizens. Hope this keeps going good.
 
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Lets hope this leads to bigger and better things.
 
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Delaware also has a form of sports betting right now. Nevada is allowed because they had it before the federal ban and Delaware got it through because a long time ago they did something with the lottery with parlays on nfl which also was before the ban so they were able to get parlay betting in. Im sure they are disappointed in 1 way that they will most likely have competition pretty quickly from new jersey as they've been trying to get sports betting in the a.c. casinos for awhile. But on the other hand they should be able to quickly get straight up bets going pretty quick. Right now it is a min 3 team parlay that Delaware has.
 
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Bigger and better things. It may bring bigger and better Bigger Payouts in online Poker. Hopefullythe USA community will finally be able to participate again.
 
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You had a ban on sports betting also????? Damn, you have some weird rules. You can find weed legal, anyone can buy enough guns to start a war by himself but you cant make a bet on sports? Thats ridiculous!

Anyway, lets hope after sports betting, poker follows.

Wait until more States legalize marijuana, maybe our legislators will partake and not have such big stick up their butts!

The overturning of the law is one more baby step. Waiting for Pennsylvania to get online, then Ohio will follow. After that, I think things will gather more steam and start to loosen up a bit.
 
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defiantly seems like a step in the right direction. I hope everyone gets what they want in the end, which I'm pretty sure they will.
 
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Nevada has to be freaking....

Didnt Oregon have a football betting lottery card or something???
 
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