Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling
by Danny Funt · 20 Jan 2026 · 285pp · 100,897 words
it into a profitable side hustle. Encouraged by sports leagues and the casino industry’s new trade group, the American Gaming Association, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA, pronounced “you-gee-uh”) in 2006, banning financial transfers to illegal gambling outfits no matter where they were based and extending the Wire Act
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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud
by Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman · 17 Jul 2023 · 329pp · 99,504 words
the winning players becoming celebrities. The star players would often then sign lucrative endorsement deals with those sites, drawing in even more average Joes. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 laid the groundwork for the demise of the poker boom. Domestically, it meant that the people behind those websites were engaged in illegal
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who Are Bringing Down the Internet
by Joseph Menn · 26 Jan 2010 · 362pp · 86,195 words
, even on poker, was illegal. In September it surprised many of its own members by approving a sweeping and poorly worded anti-gambling bill, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The bill made it an offense to accept or transfer money for an illegal gambling transaction but didn’t define what exactly made a gambling
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disgraced in a bribery probe. For the Republican majority, a vote against Internet gambling gave them distance from the Abramoff scandal. Whatever the motivation, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act crashed poker company stocks in a New York minute. More than $7 billion in market value evaporated in a single day. PartyPoker’s parent, PartyGaming
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The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
by Adam Kucharski · 23 Feb 2016 · 360pp · 85,321 words
end to the “poker boom” that had gripped the country for the previous few years. The legislative muscle for the shake-up came from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Passed in 2006, it banned bank transfers related to games where the “opportunity to win is predominantly subject to chance.” Although the act has helped
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Money Men: A Hot Startup, a Billion Dollar Fraud, a Fight for the Truth
by Dan McCrum · 15 Jun 2022 · 361pp · 117,566 words
a popular measure just before facing voters concerned about the war on terror, the amended Bill was waved through and, without notice or warning, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act sprang into being: it was illegal to take bets online. While the various US authorities were given a few years to work out the details
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Palace Coup: The Billionaire Brawl Over the Bankrupt Caesars Gaming Empire
by Sujeet Indap and Max Frumes · 16 Mar 2021 · 362pp · 116,497 words
-money, online tournaments that could be worth billions—and Garber was the man to expand the Caesars empire online. In 2006, the US enacted the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which Harrah’s was determined to overturn with its army of lobbyists in Washington. Harrah’s would clash for years with Sheldon Adelson, the man
When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants
by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · 4 May 2015 · 306pp · 85,836 words
’s own laws, it would seem that there is little question that online poker should be legal. While I personally think the logic underlying the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which governs online gambling, is deeply flawed, it is nonetheless the law of the land. Under the UIGEA, games of skill are exempted from the
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On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
the midterms as Republican congressman Mark Foley resigned from office for having sent sexually explicit messages to underage male pages, passed a bill called the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The UIGEA didn’t ban online poker per se, but it established regulations that choked off payment processors: it’s hard to play poker
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The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
by Maria Konnikova · 22 Jun 2020 · 377pp · 117,339 words
often extraneous considerations become mired in what should otherwise be clear-cut. It all started with a piece of 2006 legislation called UIGEA, or the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act: it was no longer legal to process payments for anything gambling-related on the internet. And poker was gambling. Or so it seemed. The definitions
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by Nate Silver · 31 Aug 2012 · 829pp · 186,976 words
, hoping to make headway with “values voters” before the midterm elections24 but stymied on more pressing issues, passed a somewhat ambiguous law known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The UIGEA, strictly speaking, didn’t make online poker illegal. What it did, rather, was to target the third-party companies that facilitated the
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Deep Sea and Foreign Going
by Rose George · 4 Sep 2013 · 402pp · 98,760 words