Poker Players Alliance

Written by Nigel

Good news to poker players in the United States.  We all have heard about the Internet Gambling Act which has limited – if not cut off – playing for money online.  After the first few months, the outcry seemed to have died down.  However, here is something that will give heart to those who have been affected by the ban.

The Poker Players Alliance has revealed that its grassroots organization, headed by the honorable former Senator of New York State Alfonse D’Amato, has ballooned to 500,000.
Over the weekend, D’Amato expressed how prohibition has failed repeatedly throughout United States history and will fail again with certain politicians attempts to quash online poker (a la Senator Jon Kyl out of Arizona).

An animated D’Amato predicted just as the prohibition of the 1920s failed, so too will today’s restrictions of Internet poker. “Only meaningful regulation of online poker, like the Frank plan, will produce positive outcomes for the players, children, the economy, the taxpayer, and society in general.”

Amato expressed his views in the Boston Herald.  “Perhaps the biggest government blunders in U.S. history have been prohibitions,” wrote D’Amato in the Herald. “The prohibition against alcohol led to black market smuggling and speakeasies, and reaped huge profits for organized crime. Today, the prohibition on Internet gambling promises to funnel players underground, diminishing society’s ability to deal with serious challenges such as underage and problem gambling, and, more importantly, interferes with the right to individual liberty and privacy.”

It is nothing concrete but it is better than nothing.