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Organization Launches Voter Registration Program and PAC

Washington, D.C. (April 22, 2008) “ Over one million poker enthusiasts are members of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group. The organization, which is committed to protecting the rights of individuals to play poker, announced this significant milestone today as it also launched a voter registration program and its political action committee (PAC).

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Today, the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing to discuss the UIGEA regulations and the burden it imposes on the financial services industry.  By all accounts the hearing was a huge success that verified what the PPA and others have been saying all along: prohibition does not work.  It also reaffirmed our position that there is no federal statute that would preclude someone from playing a game of skill, like poker, on the Internet.  
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Contact:           
Teresa Schofield
(202) 347-7516
[email protected]

Washington, D.C. (April 2, 2008)- Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato, chairman of the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group comprised of almost one million online and offline poker players nationwide, issued the following statement on today’s hearing before the House Financial Services Committee hearing on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA).
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For Immediate Release                
March 24, 2008                            
                                     
Contact:  
Taylor Gross
(202) 347-7943
[email protected]

Program will provide legal advice, attorney referrals for members
 
Washington, D.C. (March 24, 2008) – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group, today launched its Litigation Support Network.  This free member service will provide basic, initial legal advice as well as refer members to a network of attorneys who have expressed interest in helping PPA members with poker-related legal issues.
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For Immediate Release                
March, 18, 2008                            
                                     
Contact:  
Taylor Gross
(202) 347-7943
[email protected]

Washington, D.C. (March 18, 2008) – Poker players from across Massachusetts today held a rally outside of the Massachusetts State House to protest a provision in Governor Deval Patrick’s casinos bill that makes playing poker on the internet with other adults a crime punishable by jail time. The rally was organized by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group comprised of almost one million online and offline poker players nationwide, and held in prior to a hearing before the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies focused on H 4307, the Massachusetts Casino Expansion Bill.
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If you care about your right to play poker, we need your help!

On Tuesday March 18th the Massachusetts State Legislature will be holding a hearing on the now infamous Mass. Casino Bill. As you know, tucked away in this bill is a sneaky provision that makes playing Internet poker, or any form of internet gambling, a felony punishable by up to TWO YEARS IN PRISON and serious fines.
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