June 28, 2018
After thirteen years of lobbying for online poker legalisation under a member funding model, the financially beleaguered Poker Players Alliance has made major changes following the recent departure of former executive director John Pappas. The organisation has re-branded to Poker Alliance, appointed a new leader in Mark Brenner, and has switched to a more commercial […]
April 4, 2018
The Poker Players Alliance received a stinging rejection at the end of March when the deadline for an appeal for an emergency donation of $25,000 to save the cash-strapped action group resulted in just $6,015 response from its claimed one million members. The future of the organisation now appears to be at risk despite its […]
March 3, 2018
The Poker Players Alliance has published the results of its poll on how it’s over a million members feel about a wider and more liberal sports betting regime than is presently the case in the United States, and whether the Alliance should take up advocacy of sports betting along with poker. Perhaps predictably, there was […]
February 18, 2018
One of the first problems faced by the Poker Players Alliance action group’s new president, Rich Muny, is a pressing need for more financial donations to keep this lobbying and poker legalisation advocate operating. Muny has wasted no time in putting out a plea for donations this week, attributing the financial problem to a decline […]
February 7, 2018
The Poker Player’s Alliance has announced changes to its leadership – the most notable being John Pappas who will step down at the end of February following a decade-long tenure as executive director. Pappas will remain on the board of directors operating in a strategic advisory capacity while vice president, Rich Muny, will take on the day-to-day responsibilities in his […]
December 4, 2017
The Poker Players Alliance has reacted to the latest attempt by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Diane Feinstein to discredit the Office of Legal Counsel’s 2011 opinion that the Wire Act of 1961 applies only to sports betting (see previous report). In a public statement the Alliance’s executive director John Pappas commented: “If they were handing […]
September 7, 2017
Few will deny that the privately-funded Poker Players Alliance has been an energetic defender and supporter of online poker for the past decade or more, building contacts in Washington and individual state capitals, organising campaigns and communicating continually with the player community. Unfortunately, it appears that some contributors do not have the stamina to stay […]
January 19, 2017
The Poker Players Alliance’s energetic executive director, John Pappas, flew into Washington state this week to give evidence before a Washington state Senate committee on the benefits of online gambling legalisation. Washington has some of the most draconian anti-online gambling laws in the United States,but is re-examining the possibilities through the Senate Committee on Commerce, […]
December 8, 2016
It’s not just civic associations that are warning against the introduction of a federal ban on online gambling in a denial of states’ rights (see previous reports). The Poker Players Alliance action group has begun mustering its over a million US members in a campaign as well. In the past, helping players to contact their […]
August 20, 2016
The Poker Players Alliance, which claims a poker-playing membership of over 1.2 million, 90,000 of whom reside in California, has issued a strong condemnation of the late “bad actor” amendments to California Assemblyman Adam Gray’s AB2863 bill seeking to legalise online poker in his state (see previous reports). News that the bill may be presented […]