Latest Articles Containing 'Poker Players Alliance'

  • Professor I. Nelson Rose Talks Online Gambling and Poker

    [...] legal. CAPPERSMALL.COM: Why do groups such as Poker Players Alliance separate themselves from the online sportsbooks & casinos industry instead of joining forces to fight the cause? ROSE: Politically, they have to be separate from sports betting. The professional leagues, especially the NFL, have made it clear that Congress will never legalize sports betting. The NFL even came out agai [...]

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  • WSOP Player Drought: Fact or Fiction?

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  • Online Gambling Interview - Professor I. Nelson Rose

    [...] e privacy of their own home? It seems that the Poker Players Alliance has made an attempt to separate their interests from the overall debate in an attempt to capitalize on the public's overall acceptance of Poker. In your opinion is this position misguided and do you feel it is feasible to form an alliance between the leaders in the Poker industry, sportsbook and casino operators, and land bas [...]

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  • Sports and Sports Betting: The Best Quotes of 2007

    [...] quot; --John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, trying to end federal restrictions against playing for money online. Pappas is wrong to denigrate horse racing where players do not bet against the house (the casino or race track just acts as an agent) but each other and where skill is as much a component (if not more) of success than in poker. Visit The Greek Sports [...]

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  • Former Senator Strong Words in Internet Poker Dispute

    [...] ct (UIGEA). There was immediate response from the Poker Players Alliance and former Senator Alfonse D'Amato who compared the United States to Iran. "Poker players, the American banking community, and anyone who values Internet and personal freedoms should be troubled by this intrusive rule. "Deputizing private U.S. financial institutions to determine what are lawful and unlawful tr [...]

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  • Betfair Voices Support For European Version Of Poker Players Alliance Aimed At Sports Bettors

    [...] Betfair Voices Support For European Version Of Poker Players Alliance Aimed At Sports Bettors With final decisions yet to be made on the Lisbon treaty in Europe, the gambling community has launched an online petition, which, if successful, will become one of the first citizens’ policy proposals. The treaty includes the 'Citizens Initiative', which states that a petition of one million s [...]

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  • House Committee approves Payments System Protection Act

    [...] no, while not allowing it on the Internet. The Poker Players Alliance released the following statement; The PPA is pleased that the House Financial Services Committee today recognized the need to provide necessary clarification to what constitutes ‘unlawful Internet gambling’ under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) by passing H.R. 6870. This bipartisan co [...]

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  • Mixed reaction in Online Gambling Community

    [...] - technically a vehicle, but useless." The Poker Players Alliance issued a statement, blasting the Financial Services Committee for failing to clarify what constitutes ‘unlawful Internet gambling’ under the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). “Unfortunately, debate over the morality of gambling trumped debate on the fact that UIGEA is completely ineffective [...]

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  • PPA pushes to block UIGEA

    The Poker Players Alliance is making another big push for online gamblers to contact their elected Representative and ask them to support the bill, HR 5767. HR 5767 will basically block the implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). This Tuesday, the House Financial Services Committee will review the bill HR 5767 and in order to get the bill onto the House Floor, [...]

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