June 12th, 2012
By Poker Players Alliance
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Weekly Update from Rich Muny, VP of Player Relations
PPA is excited to announce that we will hold a town hall meeting in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker®. The Las Vegas PPA Town Hall Meeting will be at the Rio on June 30th, immediately following the “shuffle up and deal” command – the command to be given this year by key poker supporter Congressman Joe Barton (R-TX)!
PPA Executive Director John Pappas, PPA Director of Grassroots & External Affairs Drew Lesofski, and I will be on hand for a detailed discussion on all that PPA is doing. We will be taking lots of questions and look forward to a great dialog with everyone. Please plan to attend if you are in town for the WSOP. John, Drew, and I hope to meet you there!
PPA at the WSOP
PPA will once again be attending the World Series of Poker for the largest gathering of poker players worldwide. We will be have a booth in the main hallway in the Rio Convention Center, outside the Pavilion and Amazon rooms, during the weekends of 6/15-6/17, 6/29-7/1, and 7/7-7/9 (the opening days of the Main Event). Please come by the booth to talk about the latest in the push for online poker legislation, find out what you can do to get more involved, renew your membership, and pick up a PPA patch to show everyone at the WSOP that you are proud to advocate for our rights as poker players and enthusiasts!
Make sure to check the PPA Facebook and Twitter pages for up-to-the-minute info on everything we are be doing at the WSOP , to see great pictures, and to follow our real-time take on all that is going on at the WSOP.
Action: Sign the Poker Petition
The poker petition at theppa.org/changepetition2 has over 3700 signatures in just one week. That is not bad, but I think we can get to 5000 signatures by the end of the week. Will you help me hit that target? Thanks!
- If you have not yet signed, please sign the petition HERE.
- Let’s promote the petition via the prefilled tweet HERE, by sharing the post HERE on our own Facebook walls, by any other social media you use, and by asking our friends and families to join in.
- Let’s start tweeting the recipients of the new poker petition: HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE.
- I understand not everyone will choose to sign up for Facebook, Twitter, or Change.org to participate in these kinds of actions. As an alternate, I encourage reaching out to Congress via a phone call. Simply visit theppa.org/takeaction and scroll down to item #2 for talking points and a lookup tool for your lawmakers’ phone numbers. If you phoned your lawmakers’ Washington D.C. offices last week, please phone their district offices for this action. Thanks!
Interviews
Upcoming Appearances:
- The Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny webcast airs live each Monday, at 8 pm ET, on OnTilt Radio (listen live here). Follow the program on Facebook at facebook.com/PokerAdvocacy, and on Twitter at @PokerAdvocacy. The show site is ontiltradio.com/ppa.
- Webcast: “PPA Weekly Update” airs live each Tuesday at 9:45 pm ET on Fifth Street Radio (listen live here).
Recent Appearances:
- OnTilt Radio: “Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny.” I was joined by Keep Flopping Aces’ Lou Krieger and Shari Geller. We had a great discussion on poker and on the advocacy effort. (6/11) (listen here or on iTunes here).
- Fifth Street Radio: “PPA Weekly Update.” I come on at time point 1:51:06 of Part 1 (6/5) (listen here)
Interview Archives:
- Poker Advocacy with Rich Muny: show site, show archive, free iTunes download
- Fifth Street Radio PPA Weekly Update: click here
- Short Stacked Radio — prior PPA Weekly Update: click here
Thank you for your continued support!
Twitter: @RichMuny
Facebook: facebook.com/rich.muny
The PPA wishes to keep active members like yourself updated on the latest poker advocacy news by periodically sending out select events and headlines. We hope you find it informative and thank you for your continuing support.
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The Poker Players AllianceDedicated to Protecting America’s Favorite Card Game The Poker Players Alliance is a nonprofit membership organization comprised of poker players and enthusiasts from around the United States who have joined together to speak with one voice to promote the game and to protect poker players’ rights. Visit us at theppa.org
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