Even though there is no explicit law in New Jersey that states that hosting online casinos websites is a crime, the Supreme Court decided that it is unlawful and illegal and the host of these gambling sites can be punished by law.
The case concerns a 48 year old man, Nicholas Drakos, who hosted one of the many online casinos available on the net, from his own home in Belleville. When the police found out about the online casinos website, it wasn't hard to trace the website ownership back to Drakos,since the site featured his picture and telephone numbers for customer service. The police found out that the online casinos site
of Drakos was a place where bettors could log on or call to place their bets. The website had also contacts outside the United States. To catch Drakos red handed, an undercover police officer set up an online casinos account at the site of Drakos, and in January 2004 they met in person to discuss the affiliate program of Drakos. The online casinos affiliate program was a system where one bettor gets money for attracting and recruiting other betters. On the spot, the undercover agent gave Drakos the money for the affiliate program and the online casinos affiliate program was set up on the spot.
To make it all seem as real as possible, the undercover agent recruited the "other bettors", who were also undercover agents. Nicholas Drakos was arrested at the Newark Liberty International on the first of April carrying over $1,500 in cash and his gambling records. He was officially charged with promoting gambling through an online casinos website, conspiracy to promote gambling and money laundering in the first 3 months of 2004.
The attorney of Drakos, Robert Dunn, tried to convince the Superior Court Judge Salem Vincent Ahto of Morristown to dismiss the charges
of Drakos. He claimed that the state legislature never specified that hosting online casinos and any other form of online gambling is considered a crime. Dunn states that Drakos didn't know he was committing a crime hosting the online casinos website was illegal. Another argument of Dunn was that states like Wisconsin and Illinois have laws that specifically prohibit online casinos, but New Jersey has no such thing.
Prosecutor Melanie Smith contended that the state law of New Jersey states that everyone is guilty of promoting gambling when he or she engages knowingly in behavior that helps promoting gambling activities and therefore Drakos is guilty. The Superior Court judge added that even though online casinos and other forms of online gambling are not directly labeled as criminal activities, doesn't mean hosting online casinos is a lawful business. Despite the fact that judge Ahto did not dismiss the charges of Drakos he made clear that the state will still have to prove that Drakos actually promoted gambling through his online casinos website in trial, and Ahto pointed out that this won't be an easy task. No Online Casinos But A Tournament Website
For the land based casinos, the upcoming of the online casinos has been an interesting period. On the one hand they had to work harder
to keep their customers satisfied so they wouldn't run off to online casinos and on the other hand the land based casinos got new players because of the regained interest in gambling, thanks to the online casinos. Many commerce casinos were and are still trying to use the online casinos hype, by opening their own online casinos versions of the land based casinos. In Europe there are almost no casinos without their own online casinos version on the web. Here you can play the same games as in the real casino, but now in
virtual online casinos from your own living room. The popularity of the online casinos created a problem for US land based casinos, since they are not allowed by law to start online
casinos. Many try to avoid these regulations by starting online casinos outside the borders of the US. One of the Californian land based casinos, thought of something else. Instead of making an illegal
online casinos version of their land based casino, they opened a website especially for tournaments. From now on it will be possible for all players to register to any of the casinos tournaments via the website. The new site was introduced this week during the California State Poker Championship, and the reactions of players were highly enthusiastic play online casino | online currency trading | online sportsbook. The tournament registration won't be the only feature on the site. There will also be a special section on the website were players can get advice from famous poker professionals, a web store with all kinds of casino related merchandise, the results of the tournaments,rules
of the tournaments, recommended poker tips and books, schedules of the new tournaments and news about special events concerning the world of gambling. Next to all of this, there will be a live webcam that broadcasts from the casino floor showing the Jackpot prize pool. The feature at the site that is expected to be most popular is the "Bring Your Home Game". Here it is possible for private parties to book their own
games in the casino.
The Casino Manager Tim Gustin expects the tournaments site to be a great success with poker players. Since poker has became so famous thanks to the online casinos poker games, this is the most important group of people to satisfy. The registration for the land
based poker tournaments were always a bit messy due to the large amount of people who want to participate and the fact that they
register only one or two hours before the tournament. This site should make the registration a lot easier for the players. All and all, the tournament site looks a lot like any other site of all the other online casinos sites, only difference is that the online casinos feature the possibility to play games and the tournament site doesn't.
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