Frank Catania, heard of an interactive gambling consultancy that bears his name, is a former director of gaming enforcement for New Jersey- the nation's No.2 casino market, after Nevada. He describes himself as a proponent of "player protection" via strict regulations.

Players " need to look for a site that comes from a jurisdiction with significant gaming regulation" he said, and named Antigua as the best of the Caribbean-in no small part because he helped draw their rule book. He says other good sites are run out of Australia, the isles of Man and from a Mohawk Indian reservation in Canada.