[MicroBob]

this would make the horse-room the same as neteller. It's a vehicle into a poker-room account.
So it would be disallowed.


I'm also not sure if the horse-betting exceptions are for U.S. licensed sites only...but this would also be an obstacle if true.


2+2'ers in the 3 or 4 other threads where this was thought of are smarter about this stuff than I am.
The general consensus is that a place that funds a poker-room would be illegal.
It doesn't matter if they happened to be doing something that is okay like horse-racing.


I could fund my gift-certificate account at some store in Europe and buy some widgets and gadgets and auto-parts there. And then use all the left-over money I have there to buy into PartyPoker.
But just because I bought a bunch of okay items at a legit online-store in Europe does NOT mean it's okay for them to fund an online-poker account for me.

I believe this example of using a 'legitimate' business to fund an online-poker account is relevant.
If it is funding an online-poker account for you then it is no longer allowed no matter what other transactions it allows that are perfectly legal.



However, the actual ability to enforce such companies that wanted to do something like this is definitely debateable.
But whether it's actually a loop-hole or not isn't really debateable as best I can figure this stuff out.