Online Casino Gambling

Kentucky has announced that they were tracking down a case against online poker operator Full Tilt and other online gambling sites to recover losses by residents to Internet gaming. Pocket Kings, the Irish-based owner of the Full Tilt online poker sites, is being charged by the state of Kentucky in an effort to force Internet gambling sites to return gaming losses. J. Michael Brown, Kentucky’s secretary of justice is evidently preparing new ground in his attack on online casinos now that defeat emerges in the attempt to seize 141 Internet gaming domain names.

The suit, like the penalty case, uses ancient state statutes in an attempt to recover triple compensations for all residents who lost money gambling at Full Tilt. The announcement of the case gave Full Tilt a rough week, and has now raised the prospect of a federal investigation into Full Tilt celebrity representatives as money launderers. The law being used by Brown is over 100 years old, and allows losing players at illegal gambling games to litigate for triple recovery of losses. However, this ignores a debate from the seizure attempt that online gambling is not illegal and no state statute addresses it.

Rose pointed out that the winner of each hand would be accountable, and not the company operating the game. Furthermore, attorney Jon Fleischaker said the wager did not occur in Kentucky, as none of the sites were based there. Governor Steve Beshear stated that the continued efforts are not costing Kentucky taxpayers, as the law firm representing the state only gets paid a percentage of damages won.