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Future of U.S. Poker Hearing

The Poker Player’s Alliance (PPA) and online casino poker players all over the U.S. are celebrating that the U.S. Department Justice has finally agreed to hold a hearing that will discuss the fate of internet poker in the United States. Though this is not a decisive hearing that has the power to actually implement immediate change, the hearing indicates that politicians are finally beginning to discuss online casino gambling and its affect on both the international community and on the rights of individual U.S. players.

The PPA is taking a large portion of the credit for this hearing. Members of the PPA did recently blanket Washington DC with online casinos information and alternatives to the current Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Basically, the PPA has advocated that every politician spend more time educating themselves on the issues relevant to online casino gambling and to look at the current international climate thanks to the UIGEA.

John Pappas is the Executive Director at the PPA, and he elaborated that the “fly-in” and information packets given to each member of Congress contained information pushing for a Department of Justice hearing. He also commented that on the varied individuals that will represent each side of the online casino gambling and poker issue. In addition to a representative from the DoJ, a member of Congress representing each side of the online casinos debate, and a poker professional will all be present. Pappas notes that the information packets are integral to the hearing because members of Congress will be well informed and be able to “ask tough questions of the Department of Justice representative about their inconsistent enforcement of internet gaming” and to ask the DoJ representative to “point to the statute that they used to claim that playing internet poker is illegal.”