Answer by Ryan Mcnally
While there are many ways to gauge the size of any industry—by the number of employees, the output of products, tax receipts or customer count—the most common comparison is by gross revenues, or sales. When gross revenue is used to gauge the size of the gaming industry, it is a measure of how much consumers spend—or the operator wins—on legal gambling games. This appears to be an easy question. But the answers vary widely. For example, a Washington Post columnist claimed that “Legal gambling takes in” about 7 billion yearly.

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Answer by GamblingMaster
I don’t see a reason why you couldn’t. But first see if its legal to play online from there.

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Answer by TheDoverPro
Here is a start for you.

http://www.thedoverpro.com

The site provides gaming strategies and Free Football Picks, it did great last year.

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Answer by ZCT
America should completely open it up to American companies, tax it, regulate it, and allow Americans to play.

Right now the problem is America is burying its head in the sand making some bits legal, some illegal, other parts a weird gray area. This doesn’t do much to help the industry, and according to the WTO what America is doing is illegal.

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Answer by Roger K
I would NEVER, EVER play any game for money on-line. Whoever controls the web site has complete control over the results of any deal, any draw or any spin or any anything that happens.

I don’t care how much the site swears up, down and sideways they their games are honest, how many testimonials there are from people who won oodles of cash – DO NOT BELIEVE IT.

Even if, and it is a big IF, an on-line casino is actually as straight as a real casino – the odds are always in their favor anyway. and they will take your money (Why do you think the casinos are so successful? Hint: It is not because they lose money.)

Don’t waste your money.

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In this Act “sports betting” means making or accepting a bet on:

• The outcome of a race, competition or other event or process
• The likelihood of anything occurring or not occurring
• Whether anything is or is not true

A transaction that relates to the outcome of a race, competition or other event or process may be a bet within the meaning of subsection despite the facts that:

• The thing has already occurred or failed to occur
• One party to the transaction knows that the thing has already occurred or failed to occur

Spread Bets:

• For the purposes of section “bet” does not include a bet the making or accepting of which is a regulated activity within the meaning of section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act of Betting 2000
• An order under section 22 of that Act which has the effect that a class of bet becomes or ceases to be a regulated activity may, in particular, include transitional provision relating to the application of this Act to that class of bet.
• This section is subject to section.

Sports Betting: Prize Competitions

For the purposes of section 9 a person makes a bet (despite the fact that he does not deposit a stake in the normal way of betting) if:

• He participates in an arrangement in the course of which participants are required to guess any of the matters specified in section 9
• He is required to pay to participate
• If his guess is accurate, or more accurate than other guesses
• Win a prize
• Enter a class among whom one or more prizes are to be allocated (whether or not wholly by chance).

In subsection 1 a reference to guessing includes a reference to predicting using skill or judgment.
Schedule one makes further provision about when a person is to be or not to be treated for the purposes of one subsection as being required to pay to participate in an arrangement.
In subsection 1 “prize” includes any money, articles or services:

• Whether or not described as a prize
• Whether or not consisting wholly or partly of money paid, or articles or services provided, by the members of the class among whom the prizes are allocated

Pool Betting:

For the purposes of this Act sports betting is pool betting if made on terms that all or part of winnings:

• Shall be determined by reference to the aggregate of stakes paid or agreed to be paid by the persons sports betting
• Shall be divided among the winners
• Shall or may be something other than money.

For the purposes of this Act pool betting is horse race pool betting if it relates to horse-racing in the United Kingdom.

Betting Intermediary:

• In this Act “sports betting intermediary” means a person who provides a service designed to facilitate the making or acceptance of bets between others.
• For the purposes of this Act acting as a betting intermediary is providing facilities for sports betting.

Betting And Gambling Act 2005 In The UK

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There is a large market in the United Kingdom for gambling and betting on competitive sports at bookmakers, particularly for horse racing, greyhound racing and association football. The latter also has an associated form of gambling known as the football pools, in which players win by correctly predicting the outcome of each weeks matches.

Sports betting is defined by the Gambling Act 2005 as the making or accepting of a bet on the outcome of a horse race, competition or other event or process. The likelihood of anything occurring or not occurring, or whether anything is or is not true.

Pool betting can be conducted remotely or no-remotely. Remote pool betting is conducted, for example, via an internet betting site run by one of the football pools operators. Non-remote pool betting in the UK is conducted in person (for example, the Tote, which accepts pool bets on tracks and in high street sports betting shops).

Sports betting intermediaries bring two or more parties together, but do not have liability for their bets. Sports betting intermediaries can be remote or non-remote. Remote sports betting intermediaries in the UK, which includes betting exchanges, generally operate through the internet. An example of a non-remote sports betting intermediary is a tic-tac, who normally works within a betting ring on a horse or greyhound racing track.

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