Poker Players Alliance Lobbies for Members to Vote for Poker

The Poker Players Alliance, the main lobbying group for the online poker industry, sent an important email this week to its membership urging its 1.2 million members to express to President elect Barack Obama that legalization and regulation of online poker is important to them.  In light of the recent Federal Government bail outs of billions of dollars, any potential source of revenue is critical.

Members and poker players who want to cast their vote in support of online poker have been encouraged by the Poker Players Alliance to visit the Citizens Briefing Book found at change.gov, the Obama transition team’s official website.  The book is a unique forum for Americans to weight in on what they feel are the most important issues the new administration will face.  It states on the website, “The best rated ideas will be gathered into a Citizen’s Briefing Book to be delivered to President Obama after he is sworn in.”

To find the online poker topic, users can type "UIGEA" into the box located underneath "Find an Issue You Care About".  Users will need to register an account in order to vote on a topic but, registration only takes a minute to do and can be found under the ‘Sign In’ link on the top of left menu bar.  The Poker Players Alliance is encouraging poker players to choose the topic entitled, "Boost America’s Economy with Legal Online Poker".  The topic has nearly 1,400 comments and has received 43,510 points but for that score to increase and gain more visibility, users must vote up the issue.