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PPA Supports New Poker Bill

The Poker Players Alliance is more determined than ever to legalize online casino poker gambling in the United States. The PPA was formed in response to the UIGEA which was passed in November of 2006 and specifically blocked the financial transactions between US financial institutions and foreign online casinos and internet poker gambling sites. The UGIEA is very controversial and the PPA has lobbying Congress and attempted to educate politicians about the game of poker. The PPA’s main tactic is to outline the differences between the internet poker gambling industry and the online casino gambling industry, delineating the two sectors of a similar industry and instead putting poker in a class of its own – skill gaming rather than full on internet gambling.

Progress it seems is in the works with the announcement that Senator Menedez’s bill is doing well in the Senate and could possibly bring about the legalization of online poker. The PPA strongly backs Senator Menedez’s bill that pushes for the legalization of internet poker in the US as well as a licensing progress and regulations to make the maximize the safety to the US gamblers. The Chairman of the PPA, Alfonse D’Amato, publically noted the PPA’s support for this latest piece of legislation.

D’Amato elaborated on the PPA’s support for the online casino poker legislation, "The PPA has long advocated for thoughtful and effective licensing and regulation of online poker as a means to protect vulnerable communities, such as children and compulsive gamblers, and provide appropriate controls to thwart consumer fraud and abuse. Senator Menendez's legislation is the right vehicle to achieve those goals.”

Many supporters of both the online casino and poker gambling industries have noted that the US has made forms of internet gambling pushed to the black market of sorts and licensing and regulating the industry is a more sound and secure way to protect US gamblers from any ill affects associated with internet gambling…rather than the prohibition style UIGEA legislation that not only controversially blocks foreign internet gambling companies from the market but far from effectively bans internet gambling.