Reaching a Million Players
The Poker Players Alliance has announced that membership in the group is finally
nearing the one million mark – a target that the company has been pushing toward
for nearly a year now. The PPA is a U.S. pressure group that is specifically
looking to push online casinos poker related legislation through that will
legalize internet poker in the United States. Right now there are restrictions
in place that make internet poker difficult for U.S. players though not
impossible. The PPA has slowly built up membership in the online casinos poker
group so that the group has more lobbying power in Washington.
The Executive Director at the online casinos poker gambling group, John Pappas
is very candid about the PPA’s purpose and plans for the internet poker industry
and just how the group plans to spend and raise money. The PPA is a powerful
group even with smaller registered members, but the one million mark is an
important milestone. There is extensive debate online casinos and poker gambling
industries, and Pappas feels that the group will be much more convincing once it
surpasses one million registered members.
Pappas commented that the he and the PPA will "do everything we can to make sure
members of Congress know there’s an organization that’s a million strong. It’s
important to let them know we have one million active members, though, which
means our membership needs to get registered to vote and continue to contact
Congressmen on the issue of online poker.”
The group is currently sitting at 930,000 registered online casinos poker
players and Pappas anticipates surpassing the million mark very soon. |