Bloomberg article sure to cause confusion?

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So does this mean we'll be able to play on party or william hill again?

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I wouldn't think so. Party are not regulated in the UK and WH had to settle with US authorities for taking sports bets several years ago, so I can't see them taking that risk again.

The only interesting aspect of this story is that it was thought that there would be a list of banned countries, but this now doesn't appear to be the case.

The UK has an incredibly one-sided extradition treaty with the US and it would be easy for the US to extradite anyone accepting US business on probably money laundering charges, so sorry but I can't see this helping in the near future (unless the CEO of one of these companies has always wanted to have a friend called Bubba)