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PPA's Effect on the Gaming Landscape

The Poker Players Alliance is one of the key online casino lobbying groups in the United States. The Alliance has well over one million members right now all with a common interest: the legalization of internet poker in the US market. The PPA spends millions of dollars each year in lobbying funds to educate politicians about the UIGEA and the state of online casino gambling in the country. When the UIGEA first passed there were many members of Congress who had no clue as to what the UIGEA was or the huge effect that it had on the US internet gambling industry. Over the last several years the PPA has played a key and integral role in shaping the way that the US government is thinking about the online casino gambling issue.

Lobbying funds are gathered from member dues and donations and have been used to not only pay lobbying companies in Washington DC, but to also form and print out information packets that were then distributed to members of Congress. The PPA had a major push about a year ago to reach the one million member mark; the reason for this being that the politicians would have a harder time openly dismissing the point of view of more than one million US citizens. New efforts are underway to now keep the members signed up for another year.

The US is still banning foreign online casinos and internet poker sites which means that the PPA’s work is still there and in need of support from the US citizens. In addition to work at the federal level, the PPA has been instrumental in shaping some of the individual state policies – and is still actually working in some of the states to stop unfavorable legislation and policies from passing through.