Legality Question

[melioris]

I know that states vary, but it seems to be playing out primarily as a federal issue, so does know the exact legality of online poker as player as considered by the Fed? My wife was asking about this (considering some of my accounts are in her name) and the best I could answer is that it is “grey”. Of course the follow-up question was wtf does that mean? I had no satisfactory answer to that question.

I am not trying to get everyone’s panties in a bunch or start mass hysteria, I just want to know if it is considered illegal to play poker online by the US gov.