Working Out PlayAway
Entreprenuers all over the world have looked at the US ban on foreign online
casinos as a bit of a challenge rather than an outright ban. Some sites continue
to circumvent the US laws banning financial transactions, but other sites have
really stepped up on the creativity and have looked for ways to offer legal
internet gambling in the US. GameLogic’s PlayAway gaming platform is perhaps the
most successful of these secondary type of companies. PlayAway is a unique
gaming platform that bridges the gap between the online gaming industry and the
land casinos.
PlayAway does not actually offer for-money online caisno gambling – that would
be an outright illegality with the UIGEA still in place. Instead, the PlayAway
system links a land casino with a Web site that offers the GameLogic platform of
games. Gamblers love coming to the site because they are able to win prizes and
other incentives that can then be redeemed at the land casino. Because there is
no loss of money to the players the game is free and clear of US restrictions.
There has been a bit of hullabaloo from some anti-online casino gambling groups
because the sites still then link back to a land gambling venue, but that has
been mainly just noise and the state and federal governments have made no
attempts to shut down the operation – nor will they considering that the online
offerings are completely risk-free for the players. The only time chance and
risk come into the equation is when the gamblers head over to the land casinos. |