Understanding About UIGEA, The Law of Gambling Online in US
The first software provider that withdrew from US market in 2006 was Cryptologic. Meanwhile, other gambling companies followed the suit to leave the US market such as 888, Boss Media, Microgaming, PartyPoker and Playtech. Microgaming can be said as the one gambling company that chose the unique method to approach UIGEA. They banned about 11 states but Microgaming allowed people from other 39 states in remaining to access the online poker and casino sites freely with no limit.
However in 2008, Microgaming chose to stop accepting US residents because of the payment issues. While the UIGEA could not make gambling online and betting online illegal, it did kept making people difficult to find the sbobet sites with the supported methods of payment. UIGEA was surrounded by the biggest issue of payment processes because even eWallet had stopped accepting the US members except Neteller. Online betting was not come to the end but this law never made it illegal.
However, it was indeed to make 2/3 gaming companies withdrew from US market and they created the black market instead for online betting and casino. Though there was the impact or influence of UIGEA in some reasons, some US states wanted to make festival of online betting site legal by taking the stand to create as well as implement the new laws that could support the activity. The first state of US that was successful to fight against the law was Delaware with Delaware Gaming Competitiveness Act.