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U.S. online casino players who have not found a Web site to play at since the online casino ban in late 2006 have recently flocked to the new U.S. based site Betcha.com. Betcha.com launched less than a month ago, and Nick Jenkins, the founder of Betcha.com was positive that his innovative betting site was safely out of the jurisdiction of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act’s restrictions on online casino gambling sites that catered to U.S. based gamblers.

But all of his assurances to players that the site was legitimate and legal may all be for naught as of last weeks seizure of company computers. Jenkins spent a couple of weeks with Washington state attorneys defending the nature of the betting site, and justifying why it does not fall under the online casinos ban, but regardless, after his meetings, the state and government remained firm: Jenkins must shut down all operations of the betting site immediately or else face consequences.

Still believing that he is outside of the jurisdiction of the UIGEA and online casinos legislation, Jenkins continued running the site and filed a restraining order against the states until agents with a search warrant entered the offices of Betcha.com and confiscated all of the company computers.

Jenkins is still positive that Betcha.com’s e-bay like betting practices exempt it from legislation pertaining to online casinos and he says, “This is ridiculous. I'm going to fight it. I don't like the heavy-handed state coming down on entrepreneurs.”

Jenkins is vocal about his impending battle with the Gaming Commission and anticipates that if the system really does honestly interpret the meaning of gambling and betting, that the Commission will agree that Betcha.com is not like the other online casino sites offering services to U.S. players specifically against U.S. players.