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Most major credit card issuers don't permit gambling purchases with their credit cards, whether officially in their terms or unofficially by declining the transactions. Issuers that do allow gambling purchases often process the charge as a cash advance.

MBNA, Capital One and even Providian Financial, one of the largest issuers of credit cards with 18 million card holders, are automatically declining to process transactions from online gaming merchants.