In a word, YES! Even though the site isn't licensed, and have had issues with bots in the past, they also have a 20 year history without any major scandals, and have worked tirelessly in recent years to remove all bots from the site. Americas Cardroom is the flagship poker site of the Winning Poker Network, which was launched in 2001 (under the previous name MyPokerNetwork). In addition to operating the longest-running online poker network, WPN have also hosted numerous live events, including the Latin Poker Series from 2009 to 2014, the Punta Cana Poker Classic from 2010 to 2017, and the Cage Live in 2018 and 2019, where players are given a behind the scenes tour of their operations in Costa Rica. There are three main reasons that the legitimacy of Americas Cardroom is sometimes questioned: The site is not licensed by any gaming commissions. While this sounds like a big deal, it really isn't. The 3 biggest online poker scandals were all committed by licensed sites (Full Tilt used players' funds for day-to-day operations, leaving them short by about $184M when those players tried to cash out; Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet cheated players out of approximately $20M by using superuser accounts to look at their hidden hole cards during play; PokerStars, Full Tilt, and Absolute Poker were all indicted for bank fraud and money laundering for processing transfers to and from US-based players in an attempt to circumvent the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act). It should be noted that none of these breaches were identified by the licensing companies! In the past, Americas Cardroom was accused of turning a blind eye to bots. While bots have always been an issue in online poker, it was especially bad on Americas Cardroom, PartyPoker and 888 Poker. In April of 2019, Americas Cardroom took major steps to identify and remove bots from their site, and even re-imbursed affected players. Although it's illegal for US residents to play real money online poker, Americas Cardroom continues to accept US-based players. Critics of the site often use this to justify calling ACR an "illegal" poker site. However, Americas Cardroom is not based in the US and thus are not bound by their laws. As long as they're not committing crimes in the US to circumvent these laws (like PokerStars et. al. did), then ACR are not breaking the law any more than a Canadian convenience store is when they sell a Kinder Surprise to an American tourist! Although you should always be at least a little wary when playing online poker, Americas Cardroom is as trustworthy as any other online poker site. Common sense tells us that online poker companies are making too much money to risk it all to cheat their players. Unfortunately, history has shown us that too often greed trumps common sense. However, everything we have seen over the past two decades suggests that Americas Cardroom are a legit online poker site.