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You should be outraged.

You should be outraged that the U.S. government is infringing on your personal rights and telling you how to use your hard-earned money. You should be outraged by the fact that a minority of legislators passed the UIGEA, which impacts your ability to play the great game of poker on the Internet. They did this by slipping the language into a completely unrelated port security bill that went to the floor just minutes before Congress took its break for the mid-term elections. The bill passed without any Congressional debate or opportunity for you to object.

Although many legal scholars would argue that online poker should not be affected by the UIGEA, we believe the law’s lack of clarity can only harm the game unless an express exemption is granted under the UIGEA. You should be outraged that, in a rush to passage, poker did not receive the objective review it deserves, and did not already get this express exemption while lotteries, horse racing, and fantasy sports were all given free passes. We demand that Congress address this grievous oversight now.

The PPA’s primary goal for 2007 is to get an express exemption for online poker from the UIGEA and we want to ensure that the PPA’s message is heard loud and clear by Capitol Hill. By mobilizing 1 million online poker players to join the PPA they will listen, because a million voices can’t be ignored! Sign up for any PPA membership before Monday, March 5th and we’ll enter you in a PPA Freeroll tournament where you can win one of 18 personalized Full Tilt Poker jerseys like the ones our pros wear.

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Outrage is good, but outrage without action is useless. Stand up for your rights and help protect the great American game of poker by joining the PPA today.

Sincerely,

Full Tilt Poker

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Online Poker Exemption Not Likely According to AGA President

Recent reports by certain online gambling websites have claimed that online poker may possibly be exempted in the future from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. However, Jeff Simpson, a reporter from the Las Vegas Sun who recently talked with the president of the American Gaming Association, Frank Fahrenkopf, found out that is no where near the truth.

Fahrenkopf told Simpson that “they don’t have a chance in hell,” to get a poker exemption from the new UIGEA. He was speaking of the Poker Player Alliance’s optimism following the Alliance president, Michael Bolcerek’s, statement that he had a meeting with officials in Key West, Florida resulting in the officials understanding the legitimacy of poker as a game of skill.

According to Fahrenkopf the American Gaming Association is pushing for a study to discover if the online gaming industry has the technology available to keep problem gambling at a minimum and to keep underage curiosity seekers out of the industry. However, Fahrenkopf believes that even if the industry does have the technology the legalization of online gambling is still not inevitable. He believes that the tax rates that individual states would put on Internet gambling sites would be too high for any to be able to take advantage of.

Online Poker Exemption Not VERY Likely According to AGA President

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