US Laws confuse me sometimes.

I like to play poker every now and then. We have a legal poker room not too far from my house. I’m not good or anything, I just enjoy the entertainment you get out of it.  Well, I’ve always had accounts with Ultimate Bet and Full Tilt Poker just to play the free games. I hadn’t been on there in awhile, so last night I wanted to check it out. I decided to look at the Real money games and was quite surprised to see 90% of the people playing in there are from the United States.

What’s going on here? As far as I know, online poker in the United States is illegal. How can so many people be playing it? Why are they not scared to show they’re from the US?

Maybe I missed something in the law? Maybe there is a loop-hole?

There’s so many Americans in there playing for real money. It’s fun to watch the high rollers in the 300/600 NL games betting thousands of dollars each hand. Those people live in a different world than I do.

I never really understood why gambling is illegal in America but legal pretty much everywhere else in the world. America is supposed to be the land of the free, right? So why can the government tell us what we can and can not do with our hard earned money. If someone wants to play a game of skill, like poker, with other consenting adults then what is the big deal. Shouldn’t that be your right? Ughhh.. like I said, US Laws are confusing.