Over the last 20 years, the online gambling industry has suffered from a poor reputation. This has largely been due to the fact that, since its inception, online gambling has existed in a gray area. Until recently, throughout many states in the country, placing wagers through offshore operators had been deemed by state authorities to be flat-out illegal. And this has meant that, historically, most places at which players could gamble online have been shady by definition. This is because such operators were necessarily willing to violate the law in order to offer their services to players in states where…