For US citizens looking to go onto The Web and enjoy gambling in online casinos, at present, the options are extremely limited. If you live in one of the states where it is legal, then you can at least legally gamble online without having to resort to workarounds. If are one of the majority of Americans who live in a state where it is illegal to gamble online, then you may have to use a proxy serve to access online casinos which are based overseas. Resorting to this sort of workaround carries with it risks and is not advised.

In the USA, which is the home of the free market and personal freedom, it seems both strange and out of date that the freedom to enjoy online gambling is still massively curtailed by the government. It’s like Prohibition-era type thinking is still being applied to certain aspects of life long after it’s passed its sell by date. Currently, full-scale legalisation of online gambling seems unlike to materialise any time soon. However, progress is being made on a state by state basis with California, Texas and Mississippi among several working towards legalising online gambling within their boundaries.

 

As more states legalise online gambling, the pressure for the Federal government to enact legislation will become ever greater and increase the likelihood of the US market finally opening up on a nation-wide basis. The benefits are that the current illegal market for online gambling will be dramatically reduced if this change occurs and the Government will be able to put in place regulations to safeguard participants which they can’t introduce until it is fully legalised.