Collect $100/hr for playing poker online
that is, if you don't mind sleeping a few hours a night, spending all your time in your apartment, hiding from the New York Attorney General's office, using a foreign corp. to process your financial transactions and then, only if, you can even find an online gambling site, since the Feds have threatened legal action against American companies that do business with internet casinos and sports betting operations based outside the country.
Ian Urbina discusses the life of the online gambler as well as the NY AG's office attempt to shut down the financial pipelines between the US and overseas casinos. It also mentions a 1999 case, won by NY AG Eliot Spitzer, involving an internet casino, World Interactive Gaming Corporation, based in Suffolk County, New York. The online casino claimed that they were not subject to New York gambling laws, since their Internet servers were licensed in Antigua. However, the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that the Caribbean location was irrelevant, since the actual transmission of information from New York via the Internet constituted gambling activity within the state.
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Ian Urbina discusses the life of the online gambler as well as the NY AG's office attempt to shut down the financial pipelines between the US and overseas casinos. It also mentions a 1999 case, won by NY AG Eliot Spitzer, involving an internet casino, World Interactive Gaming Corporation, based in Suffolk County, New York. The online casino claimed that they were not subject to New York gambling laws, since their Internet servers were licensed in Antigua. However, the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that the Caribbean location was irrelevant, since the actual transmission of information from New York via the Internet constituted gambling activity within the state.
