Legal Gambling Age Questioned: 2

When something as easy as the minimum age to gamble at an online casino makes headlines, you know it means there was a recent study done. The huge global market that exists with the online casino industry makes it difficult to keep track of all of the different rules and regulations that exist in each and every region. The reason why this question came up is because a gambling law professor in California asked his students what the legal gambling age was and to research the matter. No one could come up with an exact answer since there were so many different sources that revealed different age requirements. Online casinos are a highly debated topic and have always been since their invention in the early 1990’s. In the United States online casinos have been banned since the passing of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006.

In the countries that gambling at an online casino is legal the legal minimum gambling age is normally either 18 or 21 years of age. The law professor determined that the law for each individual online casino player is what ever the law may be where he or she is playing. Since a lot of the responsibility is placed on the operator to keep underage players out of their online casinos, there is surely a lot of pressure to keep kids out. However the liability of the operator stops once the player has agreed to their terms an conditions to play and wager money on their website. If the player is in violation of any of those rules then they are subject to their own punishment, not the operator.