The Poker Players Alliance’s Washington state director, Lee Rousso, had his day in court Thursday challenging the state’s anti-online poker law. To liven things up, the PPA held a rally outside the hearing venue at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent, Wash.

Two men appeared and spoke at the rally who are both world-class players and articulate voices defending the game: Andy Bloch and Barry Greenstein. I asked Greenstein in a phone interview Wednesday why he decided to make his voice heard in Seattle.

“What I’m afraid of is if I don’t do anything, we’ll have other people who probably won’t articulate things as well as I can. And I think a lot of people in the poker community look up to me as someone who can speak well about these concepts.

“The main people I want to talk to are not the people who play poker, because let’s face it, most of them will have a knee-jerk reaction because they like to play and won’t listen that closely,” said Greenstein.

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