100000 Online Poker Players Raised Voice Against Online Gambling Ban
14 August 06
The Poker Players Alliance is a high profile team hoping
to have their voices heard to prevent the crazy ban on online
gambling online poker.
They have put together a letter writing campaign that involves
over 100,000 US online gambling poker members. It is designed
to open the eyes of the legislation, in hopes that the senators
will reconsider passing the Online Gambling Enforcement
Act for U.S citizens.
Michael Bolcerek is the president of Poker Players Alliance
who believes that all members should have their say. The
group is working extremely hard to make their opinions count,
as that will help deter the senate into making the right
decision.
This campaign has definitely sparked interest, and many
people are visiting the online Poker Players Alliance website
to get more information. The website has an online form
that gets filled out and sent to a representative, and Poker
Players Alliance group is getting tons of new members everyday.
The senate is currently on recess from this case, and Bolcerek
believes that the timing is right for this campaign. The
letters are sent, and when the case reopens at the end of
August, the people's voices will be loud and clear.
A recent CNBC poll showed that over 90 percent of Americans
would like to see online gambling poker regulated in the
U.S. and not prohibited! Studies have shown that regulation
and taxation of Internet poker could net the federal government
$3.3 billion in revenue annually and another $1 billion
for the states.
Bolcerek wants all players in the gaming industry to have
their say and highly recommends visiting meetings in your
town's city halls, searching for debates where the topic
is being discussed.
The proposed Goodlatte's and Senator Jon Kyl bill to the
Senate the online casino anti-internet gaming (bill H.R.
4411), leaves out horse racing, and lotteries so the H.R.
4411 will that way be supporting online horse racing, and
lotteries - so it would be okay to gamble online on horse
racing but online poker will get banned - what an insane
bill!.
More and more countries are opening up to controlled regulated
online gambling.YES OVER 80 countries worldwide including
the UK, are right now starting to legalized and regulated
online gambling and online poker gambling.
"We should be clarifying the law in the opposite direction.
Legalizing Internet gambling and regulating the industry
— as the UK is doing — is the absolute best
way to toughen protections against online gambling by minors,
identify problem gamblers.
With rising gas prices, a prolonged war in the Mid-East
and an ever increasing national debt, the U.S. Senate has
much better and bigger things to accomplish than a ban on
poker.
More than 70 million Americans play poker. 23 million enjoy
the game on the Internet. A vote against poker is a vote
against poker players.
Telling American adults how to use their hard-earned money,
whether on e-bay, or playing online poker after a hard days
work, should not be the federal government's job.
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