The PPA’s legal team has prepared a legal analysis of the options available to individual players who still have not been able to access their online poker funds held on account.  The document, “Legal Rights of Players with Unpaid Balances – A PPA Information Guide” seeks to provide our members with facts and information about how individuals can seek to claim their online poker account money.    We hope you find this document useful and informative.  Should you have further inquiries about players’ funds you can contact our Litigation Support Network at: [email protected].

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Despite the April 15th set back to online poker in the U.S. the 2011 World Series of Poker has been a huge success.  Even in the face of a government crackdown, poker is very popular and people from all over the globe gathered in Las Vegas for the past 6 weeks to ply their poker skills with the best.  More than 75,000 people played in 58 WSOP bracelet events (with $187,109,850 in total prize pool), which is a 3.7 percent increase from last year’s participation and sets a new record for the event.  The Main Event ($10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Championship), not surprisingly, was down slightly from last year given that many players earn their seats for that event through online poker qualifiers. 

The success of the WSOP sends a clear message that poker is still very popular and the globalization of poker through the Internet is attracting more and more players from across the world.  Sadly, the U.S. still is not fully capitalizing on this burgeoning industry.  By not affirmatively licensing companies in the U.S. to offer real money poker to Americans, our country is folding billions of tax dollars, strong consumer protections and the personal freedoms of our citizens.  Now more than ever, we need Congress to pass bills like H.R. 2366 and H.R. 1174.  If you haven’t done so already, contact your Representative and Senator and tell them to support regulation of online poker today!
                          

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Feds’ online-poker stance is senseless – Chicago Sun-Times (07/09/2011)   America’s online poker fans down to their last card – The Observer (07/10/2011)   Poker players find reason to unite – Las Vegas Review-Journal (07/10/2011)   Correa to Present Online Poker Bill to Senate Committee – Business Wire (07/11/2011   World Series of Poker pot still a big one – USA Today (07/11/2011   News in brief: Three new co-sponsors for Barton bill; DC casino launch delayed – eGaming Review (07/12/2011)

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