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Online Casinos Enforcing Age Restrictions?

A frequent debate in the online casino gambling industry centers on the minimum age limit for players on the internet. The United States has some of the most jacked-up gambling laws in the world right now (something many are hoping will be remedied by the Obama administration) and with all of the confusion surrounding the legality of gambling at the online casinos, the question of age restrictions becomes a whole other issue really. A professor of law at Whittier Law School in California, Nelson Rose, notes contends that there is really no clear answer to that question and that even the government couldn’t answer the minimum age question with brevity and without hedging.

The fact of the matter is this, land gambling in the US is a completely different medium from online casino gambling and is held to different rules. The US is trying to harness in the industry by a complete banning of online casino gambling from offshore online casinos, but that has proven ineffective and made internet gamblers in California and other states head to the black market of sorts for their games. And without control anymore over the online casino gambling habits in the US, the age restrictions are set at whatever that site believes is right.

The international nature of the online casino gambling industry means that companies that are offering games of chance to US players have entirely different age requirements – and there is no way that they could hope to comply with US minimum age restrictions because they don’t exist. So, in short, if you can get a site to accept you as a member with a valid credit card you can likely play at the online gambling site with few repercussions…of course a couple of US states have gone so far as to criminalize internet gambling, and that is a whole other issue as well.