Also, please don't see this as a rebuttal to your original article
I didn't take it that way at all Jay
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Clearly we are all on the same side here. Phil Ivey, Greg Raymer, Daniel Negreanu etc. are bigger than many sports stars and most of the big name poker players are also sports bettors. I don't think it would be a bad thing to get them on our side and if that means giving poker its exemption first so be it.
The fact that most sportsbooks now have poker rooms also speaks volumes. It's in the interest of party poker, poker stars, prima poker etc. to have the law repealed for both poker and sports.
Maybe if the PPA wins their exemption making them irrelevant, they'll become the SBPA (sports bettors player's alliance) kind of like the March of Dimes became an agency for the disabled after polio was eradicated