Poker Players Joining Forces To Fight Online Gaming Ban

Links72 · 06-12-2006, 05:32 AM

Here's a link to the form letter and some more information posted in the MW Poker Forum. I urge you to please take a few minutes to support this fight for personal freedom.

Major's Poker Forum

Minnow · 06-12-2006, 07:28 AM

Thanks Links, I think that may make it a lot easier for fence-sitters who may not want to take the time to write.

I will add this 1 stop shopping link to write to your congressman: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Conrad · 06-12-2006, 08:18 AM

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/...nternetgambling27.html

Links72 · 06-14-2006, 05:30 PM

Tommorrow is the big day, let's bombard our Congressmen with opposition to oppressive legislation!
Take a few minutes to support this movement. Click on "Major's Poker Forum" and you will find a form letter to use for Thursday, June 15. <u> I urge you to do your part</u> to make sure banks and ISP's aren't deputized to stop most forms of online gaming. Even if you're not a poker player, this affects us all.

Team Full Tilt sent this message to their clients early today:

More than 70 million Americans play poker and roughly 23 million play the game online. Indeed, poker is an American tradition and a true game of skill. From presidents and generals to Supreme Court justices and even members of Congress, poker has tested the intellect of Americans for more than 100 years.

Remarkably, if some in Congress have their way, a prohibition on playing poker on the Internet may soon force you to fold your hand. Legislation moving through Congress right now will stop Americans from playing Internet poker by deputizing banks and Internet service providers to prevent you from accessing poker websites.

Fortunately, an advocacy organization is fighting to defend your right to play poker.

The Poker Players Alliance, a growing group of more than 27,000 poker players, is fighting this legislation and working to promote and protect the game. The Poker Players Alliance is asking Congress to consider a rational and realistic approach to online poker that would create a regulated environment for people to play online - much like the regulations that govern traditional casinos. The Poker Players Alliance supports regulation that ensures that the games remain safe, fair and honest, and that dispute mechanisms are available. In fact, legislation has been introduced that would commission a federal study of online gaming to determine the full benefits of regulating and taxing it in the United States.

Our country is gravely out of step with the rest of the world where governments like the United Kingdom have passed laws permitting and regulating online poker. The Poker Players Alliance is actively supporting this as a sensible alternative to prohibition and so should you!

If you haven't done so already, Full Tilt Poker strongly encourages you to become a member of the Poker Players Alliance today! With your support, they can turn back Congress' efforts to ban online poker.

Help keep the tradition alive - both online and offline - and join the Poker Players Alliance. By joining the PPA, you can keep current on legislation on Capitol Hill, and speak out by sending an email or letter directly to your members of Congress. Together, we can tell Congress that putting the word "Internet" in front of poker should not tarnish this great American game.

Sincerely,

Team Full Tilt

The Actuary · 06-14-2006, 05:34 PM

Go let them line the people's pockets on their own dime.

Here we have a group of people some of whom are multi millionaires thx to the popularity of a card game-

and-

a company that is minting money urging us the people to take up arms for them and cloaking it in all kinds of bullshit.

appreciate the heads up-one of the places gives a bonus for people joining one of these organizations-not for me though.

Links72 · 06-14-2006, 05:49 PM

TA, I know to some it appears online poker is asking us to fight their battles. The reality is, we are defending our rights. Team Full Tilt along with Poker Players Alliance are simply encouraging online players to send a letter to their Congressmen. We need to let Congress know they are overstepping when they TELL US we can't play - (fill in the blank) - online.

I know Party Poker gives a bonus for joining Poker Players Alliance, it completely covers the sign up cost.

If we do nothing, as Conrad has pointed out, other states will soon follow the state of Washington's lead enacting a law that makes playing online a felony.

The Actuary · 06-14-2006, 06:16 PM

I think the status quo is underrated as far as operating enviroments for all concerned. Primarily because I think forcing the issue will ultimately mean some sort of gov't interference and i think that will be worse than the current situation.

Many states have internet gaming laws on their books-I think if you goto Rose's site he lists them and the specific law-

state's rights extend to the borders of the state-when that ceases to be the case-IOW someone is actually charged and tried at the state level for crimes related to our topic-perhaps I will become alarmed-but even still I am guessing not.

cued · 06-15-2006, 05:18 PM

where were they when they were trying to ban sports betting before poker was this popular. ***** them and their johnny come lately bullshit

buddyboy · 06-15-2006, 05:29 PM

yeah, really. Who do these online poker-room millionaire think they are! Shame on them.

Just let this bill pass. What do they care? They can just retire if the bill passes.

Here is a letter I wrote to Full Tilt:

Shame on You!

Leave me alone. Do your own dirty work. Why should I waste MY time supporting YOUR poker room.

Spend some of your money fighting these bills. I need my money to play poker.

The Actuary · 06-15-2006, 05:53 PM

buddyboy if they had taken just one tenth of one percent of all the rake I have paid in my lifetime and lined the right people's pockets-this would all be over already.

Really think it a smart move to contact gov't reps and identify yourself as an avid online gambler?

Think the world will be a much better place if it legal and the gov't is taxing and regulating?

think these folks are doing anything at all but whoring their customers at this point?

cued · 06-15-2006, 06:01 PM

makes sense to rally the players to a certain ideology but not for this certain cause. if they want to rally us and solidify us because we should be free to do x y and z then fine but this self serving stuff isnt geniune. i think the actuary is saying they should take all the rake money, cut back on the tv advertising and start paying off some lobbyists. all the senators kids and wives work for the big lobbying firms so you line their pockets and they make up a reason not to vote for it. instead they have nice tv commercials. ***** them.

buddyboy · 06-15-2006, 06:35 PM

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>just one tenth of one percent of all the rake I have paid in my lifetime </end quote></div>

it would take more than that [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Really think it a smart move to contact gov't reps and identify yourself as an avid online gambler? </end quote></div>

My FBI file is thicker than Martha Stewarts. Although, if our founding fathers had that kind of attitude then we would still be under UK rule and gambling would be legal... hmmm

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Think the world will be a much better place if it legal and the gov't is taxing and regulating?</end quote></div>

I'm sure a lot of the current book owners would like to keep things just as they are... Gov't screws up everything they touch... I would rather have taxed and legal than none at all.

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>think these folks are doing anything at all but whoring their customers at this point? </end quote></div>

Sure they are. But the ends may justify the means.