Official language: English
Population: 306,189,000
Currency: United States Dollar (USD)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = USD
1 GBP = USD

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Gambling in United States
The United States of America is often portrayed as the gambling capital of the world only because of one legendary city – Las Vegas. Surprisingly, the country as a whole has some of the strictest gambling laws in the western world with only a small number of states and sovereign tribal lands permitting casino style gambling only in designated areas.

In the United States, legal online casinos don’t exist because of a complete lack of a licensing framework. Therefore, each day, millions of Americans play exclusively at foreign-based internet casinos.

Online Gambling in United States
The US government doesn’t want people to gamble online, but technically they can’t stop US residents from playing at internet casinos that are hosted outside the US. Instead, the government has made it illegal for banks to process payments to online casinos. In effect, they think that if they cut off a player’s ability to fund their account, then the player can’t gamble online.

There are, of course, ways around this. Lots of online payment methods have found loopholes in the system, and let US players fund their internet casino accounts with no problems. Not all online casinos and other gambling sites accept US players, but many do, and since it is technically not illegal to gamble on the internet in the US, players are safe.