Yes, online poker is legal in the United States, albeit only in certain states. As of early 2024, only six states have legalized online poker  Nevada, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Michigan.

On April 15, 2011, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York seized and shut down Pokerstars and several of its competitors' sites, alleging that the sites were violating federal bank fraud and money laundering laws.

A poker player is drawing if they have a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw or drawing hand. For example, in seven-card stud, if four of a player's first five cards are all spades, but the hand is otherwise weak, they are drawing to a flush.

The main types of draw in poker are the straight-draws and flush-draws. Straight-draws are usually broken down into open-ended  straight-draws and gutshot  or inside  straight draws.