Legal notices

A reference, not a recommendation

Every page on Naughty Poker describes something: a state market, a licence, a bill, an operator’s rules, a payment route. None of it is an instruction to gamble, and none of it suggests that gambling would suit you. Whether you play at all, where, and with how much, is a decision the site cannot make and does not try to make. If a page reads to you like a nudge, read it again as what it is meant to be — a record of what the documents say.

Who stands behind these pages

The site is published by Lanyardstead Publishing Limited, Ocean Spa Plaza, Ocean Village, Gibraltar GX11 1AA. The editorial desk writes and corrects the pages; the company is the legal publisher and the party that answers for them. Notices about the site, its content or this page can be sent to [email protected]. Naughty Poker is not an operator, a payment processor, a regulator or a law firm, and it does not act for any of them.

The law is set state by state

There is no single answer to whether online gambling is legal in the United States. Each state decides for itself whether to allow online casino games, online poker, sports betting, lottery sales or sweepstakes-style play, and many allow one and not the others. A product can be lawful in one state and prohibited a mile away across the line. Federal statutes sit on top of that, and the courts have read them differently over the years.

The state pages here describe what the regulator in each state has published. They are not a ruling on your own position. Before you deposit anywhere, check your state regulator’s list of approved operators and, if anything about your situation is unusual, ask a lawyer licensed in your state.

Licensed and unlicensed operators

Some brands that appear in lists on this site are licensed by a US state regulator for the state in question. Others operate from outside the United States and hold no US state licence at all. An operator without a state licence is not supervised by your state, your deposits are not protected by state rules, and a state regulator cannot take up a complaint against it. If a page here does not name a state licence for an operator, do not assume one exists — look the brand up on the regulator’s own register before you sign up.

Age and location

The site is written for adults of 21 and over. Regulated operators in the US check age and location, often using the location of your device, and they will close an account or void winnings opened in the wrong place or by someone under age. Using a tool to disguise where you are breaks those operators’ terms and may break state law. No page here is guidance on slipping past a geolocation check.

Dates and documents

Each page carries the date on which the desk last read it against its sources. That date matters: between it and the moment you read the page, an operator can change its welcome offer, drop a payment method, raise a minimum withdrawal or leave a state, and a regulator can suspend, fine or license. The desk rewrites a page when the documents behind it change, but there is always a gap. Where a figure or a rule counts — a wagering requirement, a deposit limit, a fee — the operator’s own page is the binding version, and ours is a pointer to it.

The archive

A large part of the site is older market reporting, kept at its original address so that links made years ago still work. Those pages describe the market as it was on the day they were written. Operators named in them may since have closed, merged, renamed or left a state; bills described as pending may have passed or died; people named may have moved on. Archive pages are not updated to the present day, and nothing in them should be read as a statement about the market now. If you are named in one and believe something is wrong, write to [email protected] with the page address.

Bonuses and offers

Promotions are where the gap between a headline and the rules is widest. A deposit match comes with a playthrough requirement, a list of games that count towards it, a time limit, a stake ceiling for as long as bonus money is in play and often a ceiling on the eventual cash-out. Our pages quote these terms where the operator publishes them, but the operator can change them at any time and can apply them differently to different accounts. We cannot honour, extend or enforce an offer described here, and we are not liable if an operator declines to pay one.

Odds and numbers from others

Some pages carry figures that come from somebody else: odds published by a sportsbook, return-to-player percentages published by a game studio, tax receipts and handle published by a state, revenue figures from a company’s filings. They are reproduced as published on the date of the page. Odds in particular move by the minute, so a price quoted here is a description of the market at that moment, not a price you can get. If the source corrects a figure, the corrected one is the right one.

Not legal, tax or financial advice

Explanations of a statute, a tax rule or a bankroll method are general. They are written for nobody in particular and they are no substitute for advice from a professional who knows them. Gambling winnings can be taxable at both federal and state level, and the rules on reporting and on deducting losses are not the same everywhere; ask a tax adviser rather than relying on a page here. No betting system or staking plan described on the site removes the house edge.

Paid links

A share of the operator links here earn money: an operator may owe the publisher a fee after a reader registers by way of one. Such links are normally routed via an address starting /go/. The deals, and the line drawn between them and the wording of a page, are set out on how we are paid.

Sites we link to

Pages link out to regulators, operators, payment companies, help lines and news sources. Each of those sites is run by someone else, with terms and privacy rules of its own that sit outside our control; we do not manage them, vet their security or vouch for their services. A link is there because it is the source or the subject of the page, not because we stand behind what happens on the other side of it.

Names and marks

Operator names, game titles, logos and other marks remain with whoever registered them. They are used to name the subject of a page, and using them implies no sponsorship by, approval from or tie to any of those companies. The site’s own text and layout are the publisher’s; older archive reporting belongs to the publication that produced it, as the terms of use explain.

If gambling stops being a game

Chasing losses, playing with money set aside for bills, borrowing to keep going or keeping your play secret from family are signs that it has stopped being entertainment. Set a deposit limit with the operator before you start; regulated operators in the US are required to offer limits and self-exclusion. Support costs nothing and stays confidential, day or night, through the National Problem Gambling Helpline: 1-800-MY-RESET (1-800-697-3738). More is on our responsible gambling page.

How far our responsibility goes

The site comes as it is. As far as the law permits, Lanyardstead Publishing Limited does not warrant that a page is accurate, up to date or whole, and it bears no liability when someone acts on a page and loses by it — including money lost at an operator, offers not honoured, accounts closed, withdrawals delayed or decisions taken because of something a page said. Nothing in this notice limits a liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Changes to this notice

We revise this notice whenever the site, US law or our deals with operators shift, and the version in force is whichever one carries the newest date above. Send questions on it to [email protected].