My 3 team parlay was Cubs, A's, and Astros. A's held on to win, and if the Cubs hold on, I'm going to be pissed the Astros couldn't beat Adam Eaton to net me $117. Which website do you use to place your bets? My friend placed this bet for me. He uses sports.com. When I do it myself, which I can't do until I open a checking account down here this summer (stupid new US rules making it hard as hell for me), I usually use bodog.com, but I'm trying to find other sites to see if anyone is better in terms of bonuses and stuff. How exactly do you get around the new laws? I've been trying to play poker online and no place will accept my deposits. For some reason I think Poker is a lot harder than just straight gambling. What are you trying to deposit with? I try to deposit money using my debit card. I've tried on both PartyPoker and PokerRoom. With straight gambling do the new laws not apply? Debit Card is what I plan on using once I open my checking acct. I think that's what my friend uses too. I think you are right, it seems like straight poker sites don't allow credit cards. This is what Wikipedia says: Since many banks and credit card companies will not allow direct money transfers to online poker sites, electronic money transfer businesses provide online “e-wallets” that players can load from a bank account, then transfer the funds directly to the poker site. The advantage of these services is that it makes it easy for people to transfer money between different poker sites without the money going back to a their bank account. On October 13, 2006, President Bush officially signed into law the Safe Port Act, a bill aimed at enhancing security at U.S. ports.[6] Attached to the Safe Port Act was a provision known as the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). The UIGEA prohibits online gambling sites from performing transactions with American financial institutions. As a result of the bill, several large publicly traded poker gaming sites such as PartyPoker.com, PacificPoker.com and bwin closed down their US facing operations. The UIGEA has had a devastating effect on the stock value of these companies.[7]