Dear PPA Members,
We have accomplished so much in so little time! Our membership has grown more than 500% since the first of the year, to over 600,000 members — thanks in no small part to you telling your fellow poker enthusiasts to join our cause. We are well on our way to our One Million Member target, and I again ask for your help by encouraging your family, friends and tablemates to join the PPA.
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Dear Fellow PPA Member:
I have wonderful news to report! On Thursday, April 26, Rep. Barney Frank introduced HR 2046, the Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007. HR 2046 will lift the prohibition on playing poker online. Your efforts are making a difference!
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PRESS RELEASE

Friday, July 6, 2007, marks the opening day of the Main Event at the World Series of Poker, the world’s richest and most prestigious competitive event.Many of the competitors in the WSOP will be from Washington and most of the Washington entrants will have qualified on the internet, thereby committing a felony under this state’s internet poker ban (or, more broadly, as discussed in the Complaint, internet gambling ban) in order to win a chance at poker immortality. (more…)

For Immediate
Release                                                  
Contact: Sharon White
June 19, 2007                                                                                         202-715-1507

US Sets
Dangerous Precedent by Ignoring WTO Commitments Relative to Internet Gaming 

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POKER PLAYERS ALLIANCE STRONGLY SUPPORTS WEXLER INTRODUCTION OF ‘SKILL GAME’ LEGISLATION

Plan Would Provide Rightful Protections to Online Poker Under the Law (more…)

Group Says Legislation Provides a Better Alternative than Outright Ban

Washington D.C. (DATE, 2007) – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a grassroots organization of more than 400,000 poker-playing members, supports House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank’s introduction of sensible Internet gambling legislation.
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For Immediate Release

Contact:         John Pappas
                        202.715.1514

                        Michael Bolcerek
                        email@pokerplayersalliance.org
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Tonight, in an annual tradition, the President of the United States will address the Congress, his cabinet and our country on the “state of the union” and the goals of the government for 2007.  It is not likely the president will include the “state of poker” among his crucial national issues.  Thus, I  would like to take this moment to provide an update on where poker sits today and examine how you and the Poker Players Alliance (PPA) can continue to work together to preserve and protect the game we love.
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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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