Will American Online Poker Survive?

It has been the crusade of the Poker Players Alliance or the PPA to alleviate the sufferings of online poker players in the United States by passing up legislations to react against the current UIGEA bill. It’s been definitely a long time when the UIGEA was passed and has starved the American people on their rights to play poker online. This is due to the fact that this bill classifies poker as one of pure luck gambling kind which is not true because poker is a game of skill through and through.

At present people thought that they are getting what they wanted when the Democrats took over the House in 2006, however, what happened is not the direction they wish to take. Read more »

Comments Off Posted in: Poker News, Author: fulltiltreferralcode (December 3, 2009)

Will The American Poker Industry See A Bright Future?

A poker group called Poker Players Alliance exists and has been trying hard to implement transformations in the poker environment in the United States especially in the Internet arena. Since the UIGEA has been submitted it has plainly wither the online poker options of the US people by classifying poker like any other variety of gambling which is not true because playing poker is more like a skill test than a luck one.

This time it seems like the revolution that poker players had been waiting for will materialize when the Democrats took the Congress over in 2006 but seems like they are not going in the right direction. Read more »

Comments Off Posted in: Poker News, Author: fulltiltreferralcode (November 25, 2009)