It’s the aim of the Poker Players Alliance to alleviate the sufferings of online poker players in the United States by making a bill that will go against the very discriminating UIGEA bill. It’s popularly known that the UIGEA has denied the players in the US to play poker online, categorizing poker as similar with other types of pure gambling when poker has been tested as a game of skill rather than luck generally.

But it seems that the change people expect that will take place when the Democrats won the Congress in 2006 did not progress like the analysts have predicted. Read the rest of this entry »

The Poker Players Alliance also called PPA has long been pushing a return to reason when it comes to online poker legislation within the United States. It’s been a long time since the UIGEA has denied players in the United States of online poker opportunities, grouping poker into equal class as other types of pure gambling when poker has more factors of skill than luck to the general game.

At the moment, it seems as though the transformations people anticipated to begin in 2006 when Democrats took over Congress has at last started to appear, but not in the expected direction that most forecasters had. Read the rest of this entry »