Without NETeller, Online Casinos Forced Out
With Roxy Palace, and other online casinos announcing that they will no longer
service U.S. players, many U.S. based ambler are getting frustrated. Even though
the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act has been around since last
October, only the recent withdrawal of the online casino payment processor
NETeller has really had an affect on U.S. gamblers.
While NETeller was still accepting gambling transactions from U.S. players, many
of the major online casinos did not discriminate in any way against U.S.
players. As long as the players had a way to transfer the gambling funds, the
online casino was willing to allow the player access. But then NETeller suddenly
departed from the U.S., closed down all U.S. operations, and announced a shaky
timeline of when the online payment processor planned to return funds to U.S.
players.
Once this major payment processor could no longer accept U.S. monies, online
casinos were finding it more and more difficult to accommodate U.S. players.
Though Roxy cited multiple reasons for the recent decision to stop allowing U.S.
gambler on the Web site, many agree that Roxy was no longer generating enough
income off of U.S. gamblers without NETeller to justify continuing to offer
services to Americans.
But jut because NETeller has left the U.S. market does not mean that U.S.
players should give up all hopes. On the contrary, the online casino industry is
evolving every day, and new online casinos and payment processors are finding
ways around the U.S. legislation—it is just a matter of time before a new site
and processor will pop up for a time.
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