I ran across a website that allows you to sign up as a "bookie." You then invite your friends onto the site with a password and they are able to place real time bets on all sports. It doesn't cost anybody any money whatsoever to sign up, and money is only transfered between the bookie and his friends. The site also has contests you can sign up for, (march madness, NFL pickem, etc.) where you can join a public group or make your own private group. I know gambling online is not really legal but not really illegal either. I was wondering if this site is 100% legal and why. Thanks.
It is illegal for anyone residing within the USA (save for licensed sportsbooks in Nevada) to accept or pay out money for sports wagers. The website itself cannot be "illegal", but if anyone residing within the USA is tracking wagers and paying out real $$ (even privately) to people for sports wagers, they are breaking federal and state laws.
Well then, what it's doing is that it's simply serving as a quasi-publicly accessible "spreadsheet" for people to place and to track the results of imaginary wagers.
So yes, such a site could be used privately by two (or more) parties to track illegal sports wagering.
The site owners are not committing a crime if they are not handling money. Though it's not impossible they could be charged as conspirators in the unlikely event that the feds arrested someone for bookmaking and that someone was found to have used the site for internal bookkeeping.
So yes, such a site could be used privately by two (or more) parties to track illegal sports wagering.
The site owners are not committing a crime if they are not handling money. Though it's not impossible they could be charged as conspirators in the unlikely event that the feds arrested someone for bookmaking and that someone was found to have used the site for internal bookkeeping.
holy cow...TWICE in less than ten minutes that PPP and Barman are on same page
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Yes, the hypothetical application I described in my last post is quite likely in reality being used by real life bookmakers and their players.
AND PPP aptly notes, Do NOT post the website url here on the RxForums.
