PPA In Action

January 11, 2007

Poker Player Alliance fights for skill game exemption for poker in the 110th Congress

The new 110th Congress has an opportunity to right the wrong it created when it passed legislation that seeks to ban online poker. The bill, which was later signed into law, provides exemptions for online lotteries, horse track betting and fantasy sports but sweeps poker, an American pastime and a game of skill, into its net of prohibition.

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