The PPA Will Bring Members Face-to-Face with Elected Officials

In a little more than two weeks, the Poker Players Alliance will host a two-day policy conference in Washington, D.C., that will bring its members right to the people who will ultimately decide poker’s fate in the United States.

John Pappas, the PPA’s executive director, recently sat down with Card Player to talk about the conference. His interview follows the story.

PPA members who head to D.C. from Oct. 22-24 for the conference will attend seminars outlining the legality of poker and the ways to go to battle for poker at local levels. Then, PPA members will head over to Capitol Hill and meet face-to-face with their elected officials and staff members to tell them exactly how they feel about current laws concerning poker.

Some of the speakers already confirmed include Charlie Nesson, a law professor at Harvard; Sallie James, policy analyst for the Cato Institute; Keith Whyte, executive director for the National Council on Problem Gambling; and poker players Andy Bloch, Chad Brown, Barry Greenstein, Howard Lederer, Chris Moneymaker, Vanessa Rousso, and Victor Ramdin.

So far, just under 100 PPA members have registered. The PPA is hoping for 150, but isn’t going for just sheer numbers. Although the conference was announced to all PPA members, the PPA has been specifically targeting its members who live in what the organization has defined as key Congressional districts. The Congress members in these districts sit on the House committee for financial services as well as the judiciary committee, and are some of the most powerful members of Congress thanks to their seats on these committees.

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