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Read moreOnline poker was first legalized in the United States in Nevada in 2013. The first legal and licensed operator was Ultimate Poker, which launched in both Nevada and New Jersey - but it has since closed.
Today, online poker is legal in six states but only live in four: Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Michigan and West Virginia have also legalized online poker, but to date no operators are open in those states.
Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware have an interstate compact which allows gameplay between residents of those states; that means that players in any of the three can sit at a table alongside opponents from those same three states. Pennsylvania has legal online poker sites but the state itself has not yet joined the compact, meaning that players in Pennsylvania can only play against others in Pennsylvania.
The most noteworthy online poker sites in the USA today are WSOP.com (the official online poker site of the World Series of Poker) and PokerStars, the latter of which made its return to the USA in New Jersey in 2016 (after a 5-year hiatus; the site was prominent nationwide until 2011). Over time, we anticipate that additional states will continue passing online poker legislation - and that the number of players who can play legal online poker in the USA will continue to increase.